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From: ehj@mordor.ARPA (Eric H Jensen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Multi-tasking
Message-ID: <15693@mordor.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 14:53:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: mordor.15693
Posted: Mon Sep 29 14:53:53 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 1-Oct-86 01:25:27 EDT
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Reply-To: ehj@mordor.UUCP (Eric H Jensen)
Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL
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In article <791@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul
Higginbottom) writes: 
>...
>I couldn't resist replying to this one.  The ST computers are GREAT
>machines but they need a multi-tasking O/S SOOOOO badly.  The ...

This reminded me of an article that was posted some time ago by Bruce
Holloway from Digital Reaserch:

|>Date: 20 Feb 86 17:17:36 GMT
|>...
|>In article <409@ccivax.UUCP> rb@ccivax.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
|>>
|>>VDI and AES are re-entrant right?  What about BIOS and XBIOS?
|>
|>VDI and AES are reentrant, wrong. We at DRI are currently rewriting both
|>to be reentrant and multi-tasking; whether or not Atari picks this up
|>is up to them. Look for a Multi-tasking GEM sometime this year. But bug
|>Atari to make sure they buy it from us!

Is Atari going to purchase and release this??




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eric h. jensen        (S1 Project @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Phone: (415) 423-0229 USMail: LLNL, P.O. Box 5503, L-276, Livermore, Ca., 94550
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