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From: ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SliccTop: What is it?
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.191209.28668@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 90 19:12:09 GMT
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In article <1990Nov10.081704.7494@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
>steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes:
>
>- I'm seeing vague references to yet another ST multitasker on the
>- Citadel BBS network. The name is SliccTop, and it supposedly
>- multitasks GEM and TOS programs. If anyone has further info,
>- especially a press release, I'd appreciate receiving a copy.
>I saw it at San Jose WOA.  It wasn't much at the time, but it seems 
>like he's (forget his name) fixed it up since then, from what I've 
>heard.  It wasn't doing anything at the show, and I don't even think
>he had multitasking implemented then.  It was one of things that 
>"will have this and that."  The desktop was pretty plain-looking, but 
>I guess he had something special under the hood.
>I just pulled out the flyers I got at the show, and he calls it 
>"priority-tasking," not multitasking.  If you want, Steve, send me a 
>SASE and I'll make a copy of the two flyers for you to drool on. :^)  
>Leave me e-mail for my address.  And I'll be away Thanksgiving week.
>         Ed Krimen  ...............................................
>   |||   Video Production Major, California State University, Chico
>   |||   INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu  FREENET: al661 
>  / | \  SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261        FIDONET: 1:119/4.0
Better yet, Ed, why not post the address of (forgot his name)
and that way everyone can get the info...that is, of course,
if there is some sort of contact address on the flyers.
--Gerry