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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Towards a real, somewhat compatible multiTASKING TOS
Summary: Clarification is nice
Keywords: TOS, Multitasking, constructive ideas and proposals, future versions
Message-ID: <9310@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 20 Aug 89 05:27:53 GMT
References: <877@per2.UUCP> <116@bdt.UUCP>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago, Ill.
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In the referenced article, David Beckemeyer repeated his offer to donate the
RTX multitasking kernel to the public domain <under the right circumstances>.
He takes us all to task because all he requires is for someone to write a
worthwhile application to go with it, and in 2 years, nobody wrote one.  As
I remember the earlier discussion, though, the conditions were never so
clearcut before.  I remember a lot of offers to make RTX available free if
anyone could give him a good reason, and then a general fading out of 
discussion.  So: somebody does a printer daemon or a shell with job control
and then we can all have RTX?  That's a more concrete target.
                                     Steve J.