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From: jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Free Multitasking Kernel
Summary: YES to PD Multitasking for the ST.
Keywords: ATARI TOS RTX
Message-ID: <274@sp7040.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 02:14:06 GMT
References: <122@bdt.UUCP> <419@lakesys.UUCP>
Organization: Unisys, Salt Lake City, UT
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   I would like to put in my vote for a public domain version of the
MT C-Shell.  After having used the shell with the Mark Williams C
Compiler for about 6 or 7 months now, I feel it is currently the only
viable way to get any real work done on the ST.  The system has a few
problems but they are minor irretants at best.

    Most of the stuff that I have been working on (Both a port of YACC
and LEX for the ST among others like cpio and tar) work only with command
line arguments whick the MT Shell handles well.  If I had to try to
develope these without the aid of the MT Shell It would definitely have
taken much longer.

    I feel that the introduction of a public domain Multi tasking system
for the ST would encourage other users to develope more software for the
ST.  Lets face it the run of the mill software available for the ST is
either games, mediocre, or non existent.  The best thing I have seen is
the Mark Williams C and the MT Shell with the Micro C Tools.  Any thing
else (with maybe the exception of the developers MODULA II and being a 
UNIX buff I can't stand anything remotely resembling PASCAL) is nearly
imposible to get anything constructive done with.

    So my vote goes to a definit yes for putting Beckmeyers MT Shell
out on public domain, and Brovo to Mr. Beckmeyer for sugesting it.  We
need more people actively trying to make the ST a users and developers
machine.  Maybe someday Atari will even get away from the game machine
stigma.

				Johnnie Peters

				Unisys SLC. Ut.