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From: dal@syntel.UUCP (Dale Schumacher)
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Date: 4 May 88 09:46:25 GMT
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[wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes...]
> In article <1006@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, rankinp@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Peter Rankin) writes:
>> Has anyone out  there ever used an ST as a file  server for an 8bit
>> machine?  I would  like to  keep  all  my  8bit stuff on  ST  disks.
[...some deleted...]
> 
> Your best bet to get around this problem would be to buy Micro-RTX
> from Beckmeyer Tools and write the server program as a 'backgroundable'
> (my term) task using RTX.  RTX handles all of the re-entrancy and
> exclusion problems, giving you re-entrant systems calls and background
> tasks while still being able to use (correctly written) GEM programs.

I believe that the latest version of MX2 includes a file server which
uses the midi port, or so that documentation implied.  This is another
possibility you may want to investigate.  MX2 seems much less complete
and "polished" than RTX, but it's less expensive.

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