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From: higgin@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking
Message-ID: <820@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 10:55:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  1 10:55:46 1986
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Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
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In article <1693@ptsfa.UUCP> jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin) writes:
>Beckmeyer has just started shipping MT-CSHELL for the ST which is
>a MULTI-USER and multi-tasking OS that has a UNIX like flavor. It
>sits on-top of the TOS file structure and so does not have a 'chown'
>and other utilities but it feels a lot like Berkeley UNIX otherwise.
>It can run one 'gem' program on the regular screen but other TOS
>programs can be run from the serial-port user and the console user.
>-- 
>voice= 415 823-2441
>uucp={ihnp4,dual,qantel}!ptsfa!jmc

Sounds very interesting, but how does it allow you to run multiple
processes from the ST's on console/screen?  Via UNIX & suffix to
command lines?

Also, on the Amiga, a Command-Line-Interface can be run from the serial
port (i.e., a terminal) with a new aux: device that just became available,
but it suffers from the problem that any program that doesn't use STRAIGHT
stdin/stdout isn't going to work too well.  This includes using
Requesters(Amiga)/Alerts(?)(Atari) or even windowing.

I guess this MT-CSHELL would have the same problem, huh?  I was AMAZED
when I hooked up a terminal to the ATT7300 (UNIX box with blitter/windowing
on the console) to discover that the windowing worked on the plain ol'
vt100, too!  Now that's thoroughness.  T'would be nice if these cheaper
boxes could do that, too.  Must take gobs of code to do both, though.

	Paul.

Disclaimer: I do not work for anyone, and my opinions are my own.