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From: dandrews@bilver.uucp (Dave Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Searching for pre-emptive multitaskers
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.124912.5366@bilver.uucp>
Date: 11 Apr 91 12:49:12 GMT
References: <3012@sparko.gwu.edu>
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <3012@sparko.gwu.edu> viraf@seas.gwu.edu () writes:
>  I thought that the best way around this would be to locate
>  a pre-emptive multitasker.  I came across "CTask22" on 
>  "wuarchive", and was wondering if someone could comment on it.


Ctask 2.2 has lots of satisfied users, with lots of nontrivial
applications.  I can report a problem or two (Thomas Wagner: this
is NOT a complaint!)

I've experienced having the PC choke when a Ctask22 application,
which is a TSR, does disk I/O at the same time as another TSR.
Another user reported a similar problem, except his "other TSR"
was a network server of some obscure type.

For plain-Jane cooperating subtasks, it is great however.
No Windows support - yet - but Thomas is known to be looking
at the problem.

- David Andrews     tarpit!bilver!dandrews