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From: egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Free Multitasking Kernel
Message-ID: <16730@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 88 19:06:05 GMT
References: <122@bdt.UUCP> <419@lakesys.UUCP> <274@sp7040.UUCP>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <274@sp7040.UUCP>, jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters) writes:
>     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

I don't recall D. Beckmeyer ever offering to put his shell
in the public domain, only the multitasking kernel (RTX).

However, if he does make RTX public domain or cheap
(15-30$ for binaries, no doc.) I suspect several people will
add job control to PD shells, and DlibS will probably get fork().