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From: bill@meadow.UUCP (Bill Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Multitasking revisited
Message-ID: <141@meadow.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 89 03:22:42 GMT
Organization: The meadow  :  Hayward, CA
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> 
> Some netters replied to my first sermon on multitasking with the classical
> response about doing something else while downloading files. Hell, you do
> not need a multitasking environment to do this, just get a hold of one of
> the telecom packages on the market that allows backgound file transfers.
> 
> You don't need a full blown multitasking environment for something as simple
> as file transfers in the background!

I happen to agree 100%.  If you are going to do multiasking correctly, you
need the proper OS.  Tos with Beckemeyer's RTX is the best I've got and is
actually fairly stable until you run out of memory (very easy to do on 1 megs)
This way, a getty can be polling the serial ports for a login from some
RS232 device such as a remote computer via modem, thus creating a form of
network.  Files may be sent from machine to machine for storage/printing etc.
Something along the lines of ANET-midi combined with my message networker.
You may also, of course, run whatever else you want to in the background.

The thing is, the OS and the getty program must be stable enough
to avoid a reset for hopefully days if not weeks.  We really need TOS 1.4 -
my os is broken.  My last set of 6 1040 roms cost me $30+tax.   Microsoft
sells each version of MS-DOS seperately, but theirs works.

What about this german university multi-tasking RTOS?????  Seems like this
would be as easy to obtain as 1.4 - does it lie on top of TOS or replace the
roms?


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