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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Multitasking
Message-ID: <14810@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 10 Jan 91 17:11:16 GMT
References: <6639@crash.cts.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <6639@crash.cts.com> khorster@pro-graphics.cts.com (Karl Horster) writes:
>        As I believe with the multitasking on the GS, it can't be fully done,
>because when Apple made the GS compatible with the //e the disk controller
>ports and things like that had to be the same.  And since they had to the same
>the Apple can only do one output and one input at the same time.

That's a non-issue, since certainly there would be mutually exclusive
access to system resources such as peripherals.  All multitasking
operating systems have to address this issue.  MicroSoft Windows 3.0
is built around MS-DOS, which has similar characteristics as ProDOS,
and it works wonderfully well.