Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Multitasking GS? Sure, why not. Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 88 15:52:16 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: <8077@brl-smoke.ARPA> As with any multitasking system, the software under it will have to behave itself and follow some standards. Sure, a lot of programs may crash a multitasking OS on the GS, but so do a great deal of programs on the Mac under Multifinder because they don't follow the same such rules > One of the major short coming in the GS is lack of real memory >management. Any program can happily write to any memory at any time. There are dedicated memory allocation tools on the GS, (memory manager, etc.) and if the thing were fast enough and had enough memory, it could conceivably do the job. I would be satisfied with something like the Mac's old Switcher or a version of Roger Wagner's Softswitch that could work with Prodos 16 applications, and maybe some kind of protocol that some software that could most benefit from multitasking or background use (such as com software when downloading or fileserving) could work using interrupts. However, if people say the GS or GS+ (hope, hope) could be a true multitasker, than more power to it. But that'l take a while. In the meantime, these "false multitasking" concepts could make the GS a lot more powerful.... Capt. Albatross jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu ============ disclaimer: These opinions are mine and will remain so until more intelligent or insightful or informed people are kind enough to show me the error of my ways. Remember: A mind is a terrible thing to baste.