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- From: coonstot@quads.uchicago.edu (charles orville onstott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Question : ___ M-ROS ___
- Keywords: M-ROS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.100821.24576@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 10:08:21 GMT
- References: <743@vercors.frec.bull.fr>
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- In article <743@vercors.frec.bull.fr> heritier@delta4.frec.bull.fr (Franck HERITIER) writes:
- >Does someone know what is M-ROS for Atari ST ? What is the editor
- >of this multitask system ? Can you evaluate it ?
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
- >Frank.
-
- M-ROS is the multitasking environment developed by Steinburg-Jones
- for use with their MIDI software.(Cubase, editor/librarians, etc.)
- It also, I believe, allows communication between various
- components of Cubase itself and between Cubase an other programs
- that would be running simultaneously. (Midi data exchange, triggering,
- events, etc.)
-
- M-ROS works behind the scenes whenever you load any Steinburg-Jones
- package. IT has no editor as such. In fact, if I am not mistaken,
- Cubase itself needs M-ROS to function properly (independent of
- their other packages.) HOWEVER, M-ROS is a PART of the Cubase
- package and is not a seperate load.
-
- There is another package distributed with Cubase called
- "Switcher" which allows you to load multiple programs
- and have them run simultanteously. It is limited only
- by resident RAM(no swapping capabilities that I know of--
- though newer versions of Cubase have loadable modules
- to aid memory crunches.) This would be the closest
- thing to an editor for M-ROS that I can imagine. Essentially
- it's a menu screen that you call up using an alt-key combination.
- You can also jump directly to other programs by using alt-#.
-
- Switcher is primarily intended to be used with
- Steinburg-Jones software though it will work with others.
- (I have, for example, run Word Perfect simultaneously with
- my Cubase without any trouble.)
-
- BCnya,
- Charles O. Onstott, III
-
- P.S. Even if you meant M-TOS, I thought this might clear some
- things up for those who weren't sure what it was.
-
- P.P.S. If you're in to MIDI and don't have Cubase,
- you're not really in to MIDI. Rush out and buy it as soon
- as you can-- it's phenomenal. (Also, the only reason
- why I keep my Atari.)
- --
- Charles O. Onstott, III (coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu)
- Graduate Student in Religion and the Human Sciences
- The University of Chicago Divinity School
- "[T]he problem of history cannot be solved by avoiding it." (B. McGinn)
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