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From: ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
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Subject: Re: SoftLink
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Date: 2 Feb 91 19:48:07 GMT
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In article <1991Feb2.151958.11041@cbnewsm.att.com> wao@cbnewsm.att.com (william.a.oswald) writes:
>What is Softlink? Is it similar to Revolver? If so which one
>is considered to be better. By the way I own and use Revolver.
>
>Thanks
>Bill Oswald
>aloft!wao


SOFTLINK is a product by C-LAB, the makers of CREATOR and NOTATOR
midi software.  The SOFTLINK.prg came  with the update to 2.2 
version of NOTATOR (and CREATOR).  REVOLVER and SOFTLINK are
quite different.  SOFTLINK allows for limited MULTITASKING:
you can run multiple midi programs concurrently and exhange
midi datat real-time.. and you can also run GEM and TOS 
programs while running midi programs CONCURRENTLY.  Softlink
partitions your RAM, but doesn't revolve it out to disk.  SO,
there are a couple of the differences between the two programs.
C-LAB  *WAS* working on another 'level' of SOFTLINK  that would multitask GEM and TOS.. but dropped development when they heard ATARI was putting out
a multitasking autofolder program.  Well.. we never did see
that ATARI program.. and C-LAB hasn't returned to the development
of a more powerful SOFTLINK.

AN example of what i have been able to do with SOFTLINK:

Run NOTATOR in partition 1 Playing a sequence
Run TEMPUS in partition 2 printing a file
Run STalker as an accessory in parition 3 in BBS mode
and have a friend log on remote and run gulam off my system.


kevin
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu