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From: mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT, TT030/2, STE
Message-ID: <12430011@acf5.NYU.EDU>
Date: 14 Nov 89 11:56:00 GMT
References: <487@laas.laas.fr>
Organization: New York University
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/* acf5:comp.sys.atari.st / depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) / 11:19 pm  Nov 13, 1989 */
>In article <1783@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>>ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes:
>>>The strange thing is that i have a hard time believing that i 
>>>am still considering buying an 030 that won't multitask all that
>>>niffty GEM software i have on my drive.  
>
>>What I'm trying to say is THIS IS NOT EASY.  It's not even Moderately
>>Difficult.  This is A Hard Problem.  The presence of a 68030 doesn't
>>make it any easier.
>>
>
>It is for the same reasons that OS/2 isn't compatible with dos. ...

OS/2 286 allows one DOS compatibility window within OS/2.
OS/2 386 will allow any number of DOS compatibility windows within OS/2.

>Does anyone know how the hell Macintosh managed to make all their programs
>work with multidesk (or was multitasking always supported on the Mac?
>Please don't flame me if this is very common knowledge - my hatred for
>Apple runs so deep that I haven't even touched one until quite recently...)

I am not flaming you, but it IS kommon knowledge. With HARD WORK!
Like the people which wrote OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Desqview ...
Mind you, I am not saying Atari people don't work hard. The contrary.
But they seem to be too few to handle a project of this size.

I guess there are other departments (ie PC compatibles, game machines)
which have more need of Atari's employees.

Thanasis


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