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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Comments in the STart MIDI-tasking article
Keywords: Frank Foster MIDI-tasking
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Date: 24 Jul 90 13:08:00 GMT
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In article <2221@mcrware.UUCP> ric@mcrware.UUCP (Ric Yeates) writes:
>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?

At least they didn't flame you by name; they specifically slammed Beckmeyer:

    Questioned about Atari's policy in view of an existing multitasking
    system such as Beckmeyer's Micro RTX/MT C-shell, Foster dismissed it
    as one that "[works] but not very well."

Yay, applause from the galley!  Death to the filthy/nasty 3rd-party Huns!

I've just figured out what Atari's problem is: all the other players in
their market are bowling; Atari is playing golf.  They double-bogeyed
with the original ST, but happily have been playing under par ever since...
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