Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sunybcs!leo
From: leo@sunybcs.uucp (Leo Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Free Multitasking Kernel
Summary: No problems with mentioned products!
Message-ID: <8389@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 20:17:24 GMT
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In article <1013@sask.UUCP> long@sask.UUCP (Warren Long) writes:
>My understanding is that the Beckmeyer multitasking Kernel will not
>run many (any??) of my favourite programs.  Eg.
>						Uniterm
>						MicroEmacs
>						Gulam
>						MWC
>There are also many utilities that came with MWC that I assume I can
>recompile to run with RTX so they shouldn't be any problem. [...] If
>I am wrong about the above programs, tell me and I will be off the to
>store right now!!

I have no problems with running UniTerm under MT C-shell (it does halt other
running progs), MicroEmacs will allow other programs to continue running
in the background unless what you're editing is really big. Gulam works
as a shell under micro-rtx in place of csh (so does msh), and I run
compilations using MWC in the background all the time. Tell me, please: Where
does your info come from? I have had no problem running MWC, I'd finally throw
this machine away if I had. I haven't had to recompile ANY of the MWC utils
to get them to run, either! One thing that doesn't seem to work: UniTerm can't
open files when using Kermit for file transfers under MT C-shell. Works okay
for xmodem or ymodem or ascii, but it doesn't like something that kermit is
doing. Protections, maybe?
Leo E. Wilson  364 West Delavan Avenue  Buffalo, NY 14213  (716)883-7573
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