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From: rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Multitasking on a II
Message-ID: <10563@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 05:55:10 GMT
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Organization: University of California, Riverside
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>> An Apple //gs has all the necessary hardware to support such
>> an operating environment...

Gee...  The Apple //gs even has a timer interrupt.  It could easily
support pre-emptive multitasking.  Hardware isn't the problem,
*SOFTWARE* is the problem.  GS/OS cannot support multiple processes
without some *MAJOR* hacks.

Sure, you can easily get a multiprogramming demonstration running
just fine, but the system is not robust enough for commercial
quality work.  No developers would support multiprogramming
unless it was very robust.
*** Randy Hyde O-)