ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (01/14/87)
Apple doesn't seem interested in supporting it, presumably for marketing reasons. Has anybody given any though to supporting a multitasking OS on the //GS? It seems a shame to have so much power and not be able to fully utilize it. A 6809-based Tandy Color Computer can do multiasking under the OS-9, has anybody though of what sort of ProDOS extensions would be needed to support multitasking? Even a constraint like restricting tasks to fit in one 64K bank of memory would still allow useful applcations to be developed. (It might even be worth retrofitting to the //e if you had the right kind of bank-switched expanded memory card (AE or Checkmate could support a separate task in each bank of 64K, even the Apple extended-80 col card might support one additional task.) -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone: (412) 268-2847 [CMU-BUGS], 268-3275 Amateur Radio: KA3PLY temporary KT (c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA)