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From: gordon@sage.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multitasking discussion
Message-ID: <289@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 04:31:39 EST
Article-I.D.: sage.289
Posted: Wed Feb 25 04:31:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 06:01:22 EST
References: <8702131709.AA28497@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1588@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gordon@sage.UUCP (Simon Gordon)
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Reading Univ. UK.
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In article <1588@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>In article <8702131709.AA28497@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET.UUCP writes:
>
>1.  GEM calls from OS-9.  This likely won't work.  I don't *know* that they
>won't work, but GEM just wasn't designed for multi-tasking and I expect at
>the very least that interrupt handling may become contentious.  I *think*

But DR say it is designed so that they can add it later, they already have a
version that allows you to switch between several 'processes' though only
the top one is actualy running, and say they do intend to bring out a real
multi tasking one later. (OK i admit it, a lot later probably).