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From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: Multitasking
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Date: 12 Jan 91 08:14:21 GMT
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In article <1991Jan12.050921.1002@clark.edu> johns@pro-library.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
> 
>With all the talk of multitasking going on, is it going to become a reality
>on the GS?  Please, please, say it is so.

   It very well could be.  The foundations have been laid for us by Apple.
A brilliant operating system (GS/OS isn't perfect, but it's damn good).
Bill Gulstad has been working on getting the tool sets to cooperate with
each other in a multitasking environment, and he's got it 95% licked.
All that stands in the way of a GOOD system is the MMU- and that's in the
early design stages, right here on the Internet.
   It seems that everyone involved knows their beans when it comes to making
a machine appear to run multiple programs at once.  We're all pretty well
educated, and since any problems we might face are strictly engineering
tasks, we have a good shot at getting this thing going.
   Yeah, I'd say it's so.

   And a side note- in case you're all wondering, YES I've moved to my
very own Sun 3/260 (well, it belongs to the dept....)  I've forwarded my
mail to the address listed in the Reply-To field.  Please ignore the
bazyar@chip address above.  Just use the Reply feature of your newsreader
to contact me.  If you want to send mail directly, use the address in
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Jawaid Bazyar               | Being is Mathematics 
Senior/Computer Engineering | Love is Chemistry
bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu          | Sex is Physics
   Apple II Forever!        | Babies are engineering