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From: SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Multitasking ona GS
Message-ID: <90284.140925SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 18:09:25 GMT
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In article <9010071043.AA06954@lilac.berkeley.edu>, lwv27@CAS.BITNET says:
>
>Is anyone out there using Softswitch on a GS?  I have it but have never
>set up a disk to boot into it.  I am thinking about revising my setup so
>that I would boot into SoftSwitch and running ecp8 in one window, TIC in
>another, binscii in another and shrinkit in the last.  This would give
>me a pretty nice environment, where I could be downloading files in
>ymodem batch mode in one window, and, when the download completed, switching
>to the binscii to turn it into a shk file and, 70% or less of the time,
>switching to shrinkit to extract the non-forked files.
>
>Has anyone tried anything like this?  Am I just dreaming?  How much
>memory am I going to need?  I would think that it shouldnt be too bad -
>sounds like less than 500k, which I have.

Simple enough. Forget all about it. The programs in other "windows" aren't
really running. They are in a "dead-zone" where they do absolutly nothing.
Softswitch is primarily useful when using something like Appleworks with
say Basic or a program launcher. Forget about running tasks in the background,
we just don't have any programs with that kind of capability yet...

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