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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Atari-bashing (was Re: Looking for an Evangelist)
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Date: 6 Jan 89 00:16:36 GMT
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In article <538@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> I write:
>Not to say that things are all perfect or wonderful in the ST world, but they're
>certainly as crippled as you make things sound. There's a lot of delay loops in

Just in case people get the wrong idea... Yes, I accidentally omitted the word
"not" up there... Brain got ahead of the fingers and they dropped a packet, I
guess...

>TOS that would have to be rewritten before it could handle multitasking more
>flexibly. There are lots of things I'd like it to do that it doesn't, but it's
>not impossible to implement these by oneself.

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