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From: ge@phoibos.cs.kun.nl (Ge Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari slanders Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
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Date: 8 Aug 90 09:40:45 GMT
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david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:

>In the August 1990 issue of Start magazine there is an article
>called "Multitasking On The ST".  In this article Frank Foster
>from Atari Corp. is quoted as saying that Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
>"[work] but not very well" and that all current multitasking
>systems for the ST are "kludges".

Cheer up. The same can be (and is) said about TOS. TOS is the biggest kludge
I've seen to date. If TOS had not been in ROM somebody would have written a
better replacement long ago. A little more staff for an essential part of the
product would not hurt.

Adding multitasking as an afterthough is necessarily a "kludge". That does not
mean it does not work well. (I've written some multitasking code for the
beast myself, and it's tricky. But it runs on every version of TOS I've seen,
so it must be a fairly clean kludge.)

Ge' Weijers
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