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From: alex@athertn.Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Anyone know about MT C-shell?
Keywords: MT C-shell
Message-ID: <18604@laurel.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 90 17:20:30 GMT
References: <20967@ditka.UUCP>
Reply-To: alex@Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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>I've been trying to get a hold of Beckemeyer Development by phone for
>some time now.  I got the number out of a recent STart magazine and
>dialed the number.  It was disconnected, but gave a new number.  I then
>called the new number and have only succeeded in getting an answering
>machine saying that Beckemeyer Development was not available and would
>get back to me soon.  I left a message twice, but have not heard a
>thing.  Anyone know what happened to Beckemeyer?

Dave is very much alive and well.  It kinda depends when you call
him whether he's there or not.  Try late afternoons, PST, as the
best bet.  Also, if you e-mail him (Hope I get this right:
uunet!unisoft!bdt!david) he responds pretty quickly.

>So, I only know what the advertisement said about MT C-shell, which was
>that it is multi-user, multi-tasking, runs GEM programs and as an
>option, UUCP is available.  Sounds good (maybe too good).  Is it really
>multi-user, multi-tasking? I doubt this because someone told me that he
>didn't think the Motorola 68000 chip had memory protection mode and, in
>light of that, it would be impossible for a 68000 to run multi-user.
>Also, does the MT C-shell come with any Unix utilities and, if so, which
>ones? What do people think of it? Is it just as good to get a public
>domain, multi-tasking kernal such as MX2?

Dave wrote a multi-tasking kernel (Micro RTX) which is what he bases
his stuff on.  Micro RTX is available as shareware here on the net.
His stuff does indeed support multi-user multi-tasking (I'm running
his stuff on my system at home), although you do come to appreciate
the limitations of an 8-mhz 68000.  (Hmmmm...I need some more processor
horsepower here!).  His UUCP stuff works, too (I have my own UUCP
site setup and can recieve mail, and everything! :-).  If you want
to get a flavor of his stuff, get his single tasking C-shell and
tools;  I've been using them for more than 5 years now, and have
nothing but good things to say about them.

Highly recommended.
Note: I'm not connected with BDT in any commercial way, although I 
do know Dave.


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