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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Multitasking
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Date: 7 Apr 89 14:47:49 GMT
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cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas) writes:
>     To tell you the truth, I would rathat have multitasking with Prodos
>     8 programs than Prodos 16 or GS/OS.  What I'd like to do is run a BBS
>     in the background and still retain some productivity.  I use a lot
>     of 8 bit software so the board would be up most of the time etc...
>     IS this just absolutely impossible to do?  Like I said a while back, the
>     COCO III can multitask and I want to do it on my GS (especially now
>     that I've gotten used to UNIX and the Encore Multimax  :)  )

The CoCo uses OS/9 for multitasking, which is an OS designed specifically with
multitasking in mind.

Multitasking on the Apple II is more difficult, first since there is no
multitasking OS available, and second since in emulation mode you have to
watch out for certain portions of memory, depending on what you're doing.  You
would probably find it difficult (if not impossible) to run anything from a
favorite game to Appleworks at the same time you're running a BBS under ProDOS
8, since most software takes so much advantage of what's available here and
there that it crowds out the possibility of multitasking.

Michael Pender seems to have some software brewing that lets you do P8-type
multitasking, but I have no idea what limitations it has or doesn't have. 
Michael?

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