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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Multitasking & the IIgs
Keywords: Multitasking, IIgs
Message-ID: <966@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 14:54:39 GMT
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Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
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Scott, would it really be any different than things like Unix allowing DOS
programs to run under its environment?  I mean MSDOS makes assumptions about
being in control of its machine as well , and yet I can, if I am masochistic
enough, run numerous DOS windows on this Sun386i that I am sitting at.

I dont claim that this would be easy to do on an Apple - one is going to want
a fast cache, fast hard disk,  etc.  What I want to encourage is folks to
go ahead and try porting minix, that unix clone that ran on the z80, etc.
I personally am willing to give up most, if not all of my Apple II software
to run in a Unix environment at home.  I could sell my equipment and buy
an Intel based machine to do this - or even an Atari ST - but I would rather
not go thru the hassels of selling and buying if I could use what is already
present in terms of hardware ...  I always have the boot disks for Prodos
if I want to run an Apple program bad enough.

P.S.  There used to BE a memory management chip for the Apple II line - any
one out there ever see that in person?

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