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From: db@hoptoad.uucp (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <3797@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 7 Jan 88 08:04:20 GMT
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Reply-To: db@hoptoad.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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In article <2209@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
> ...     As far as this OS/9 buisness goes, if it were being distributed
>      free then it might mean something, but from what's been said it 
>      will be held by only a small fraction of the ST users due to its
>      price.  Thus programmers will not be able to consider the bulk of
>      the ST market when depending on OS/9, and will not be likely to
>      do so.  So much easier when its included with the basic system!
>

So are you implying that if Multitasking were free to all users, it
would be used?   Say if a multi-tasking TOS compatible kernel were
available free to all users of the ST.   In other works a free 
runtime-only kernel to anybody that asks.  Maybe even Atari gives
it aways with each machine.  Programs developed for the multitasking
kernel will run on any machine with the free kernel installed.

End-users get the runtime kernel free.  Developers pay for a "development
kit" that includes non-PD documentation and programming language interfaces.

How many people would be interested in such a thing?  At what price
for the developers kit?

If I get enough replies, I might consider making the run-time RTX
program FREE.

	David Beckemeyer
	President - Beckemeyer Development Tools
	478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland CA, 94610
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