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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIgs ROM revisions
Message-ID: <15681@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 2 Apr 91 23:47:39 GMT
References: <926.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs> <51032@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <51032@apple.Apple.COM> shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) writes:
>On the other hand, we've seen the Multiswitch advertisements and are kind
>of wondering exactly what the French folks have done to get all of that to
>work right.  There are a lot of really bizarro issues that they'd have to
>contend with...

It occurred to me that that posting might be an "April Fool's Day" joke.
It seemed to say that for $80 one would be able to buy not only that
software but also two hardware support devices, which seems improbable.

An almost-functional switcher was posted to some information services
a year or two ago; I tried it and it worked so long as one didn't press
it TOO hard.  It simply patched the tool vectors so that it could
intercept those tools calls that needed intertask coordination.  That
would also be a good place for a task switch if one wanted to implement
a true multitasking system.