Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!ric From: ric@mcrware.UUCP (Ric Yeates) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Comments in the STart MIDI-tasking article Summary: Frank Foster's kludge alert Keywords: Frank Foster MIDI-tasking Message-ID: <2221@mcrware.UUCP> Date: 23 Jul 90 19:46:12 GMT Reply-To: ric@mcrware.UUCP (Ric Yeates) Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa Lines: 19 In the August 1990 STart magazine, "Multitasking on the ST", Atari's Frank Foster is quoted as saying: "The makers of the ST don't think that multitasking could be properly done on a Motorola 68000-based machine. Any such system is a kludge." [Paraphrase, don't sue me]. Seeing this information, everyone here quit working and locked the doors. No need to continue work on a kludge that will never work anyway, eh? :-) Do they think this is a really good way to encourage third party developers? Sorry, I get a little excited sometimes. You can continue reading the News. Ric Yeates -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ric Yeates Microware Systems Corp. "I found these opinions on the floor, so I don't think they belong to Microware." 1. Grease Generously 2. Wax Philosophically -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=