Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!rat From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Multitasking on a II Message-ID: <1675@madnix.UUCP> Date: 5 Jan 91 20:11:54 GMT References: <10806@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <60236@microsoft.UUCP> Reply-To: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI Lines: 25 brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY) writes: | The key issue is that you can do it. [multitasking] I HAD to add my .2c worth.... You CAN do multitasking on a II... Four or five years ago, I watched an Apple II handle 2 background tasks and a foreground task, and I also watched same said Apple II go multiuser with 2 users online as well. Of course, this was a co-operative multitasking environment. The system was an Apple II+ running Mad Apple Forth under DOS 3.3. Forth has been able to multitask (and multiuser) machines of incredibly SMALL size for years... PS: Mad Apple Forth is available for ProDOS - ask me! But multitasking was never re-implemented/cleaned-up/brushed-up/whatever when I converted from DOS 3.3 -- ! InterNet: deety!rat@spool.cs.wisc.edu ! David Douthitt ! UUCP: ...uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!deety!rat ! Madison, Wisconsin ! {decvax!att}! ! === Apple II Forever === ! Home of Mad Apple Forth and the Tiger Toolbox ! The Stainless Steel Rat