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From: m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Multitasking thought
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Date: 11 Apr 89 14:18:56 GMT
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       A thought on this whole idea of a UNIX type operating system for the
   Apple IIs.  First off, I'm going to state that which is obvious to some of
   you and absolutly forigen to some others of you.  We all ready have a UNIX
   like operating system.  Ok, not quite but from the point of the call
   interface it's close enough for our comparason.  Yes, it's seriously
   lacking in memory management, job management, and other vital items.  What
   I'm saying, is that we don't want to rebuild the OPERATING SYSTEM, ProDOS
   will do fine as a foundation.  We don't need to do it so that it's
   incompatable.  What most of the people here are looking for is a SHELL
   that will allow them to do the multitasking.  I think that for the time
   being, unless we do get a Hertzfield for the gs, we're going to have to
   make some comprimises.  The first one is that we may not get a system that
   can run all of our old software as we'd like it to.  What we may have to
   do for to establish this kind of thing is create a C Shell type interface
   (Apple C Shell?  ASH?) that uses new utilites, all written to adhere to
   the new rules.  This is what Don Elton did for ECP.  Before anyone puts me
   on the spit, I know this isn't great, but I think that some people may
   need to readjust their thinking on some of this.
 
       Please note, at no time did I say it's impossible!  Let's face it,
   "Impossible" is the word that built a lot of companies..
 
       Just by two bits worth.

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