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From: floyd@pawl.rpi.edu (Patrick J Wetmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Multitasking on a II
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Date: 13 Dec 90 06:17:58 GMT
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In article <10563@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>>> 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.

>*** Randy Hyde O-)

Bull. The apple iigs (curse its evil presence. I hate hate hate it. Infernal
lousy piece of... growl snarl.) has no protected memory, and no virtualling
hardware. Any machine can multitask, but without the proper memory 
architecture the thing will be completely useless. Plus, the damnable
thing is so slow. It plods.

Pat Wetmore

PS I hate the damn keyboard bus on this thing.

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