Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!uvaarpa!hudson!astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Look ma, no flames! Message-ID: <2182@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 27 Oct 89 16:39:59 GMT References: <4675ca0d.14a1f@force.UUCP> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 39 In article <4675ca0d.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes: [ responding to a question about TT multitasking ] >Nope, it does NOT multitask. J. Townsend has announced that 3rd party Unix will be available "RSN". Unix multitasks. It's entirely possible that David Beckmeyer could produce a TOS multitasker that could multitask as well on the TT as MTC does on the ST. However, multitasking ST programs in general is quite a complex problem. The TT has 2 markets: 1) Upgraded ST -- singletasking, runs GEM, fast. 2) Unix box. System V binary-compatible, nice fast colour display, ram above 2 megs uses burst cache fill so it's relatively fast. This is the future. > This has been mentioned by John Townsend et al >on GEnie in the past. John also talked about Unix. Unix multitasks, eh? > The TT will simply be a faster ST with slightly >better graphics. To market # 1, TT will be this. It's an upgrade path for the ST. For market # 2, the TT will be quite different. It will be a box capable of running Unix programs distributed as source as well as 680x0 binary- standard applications. Instant software base. I hope that Richard doesn't buy one so that he won't tell us all about it. Actually, I wish Richard would benchmark TeX on his SLM804 against an HP Laserjet and then tell us how bad the SLM804 is. ------ Greg Lindahl gl8f@virginia.edu I'm not the NRA.