cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) (08/15/89)
Well, I've been seeing tons of references to MX2 in the latest flurry of multitask mania. I'm curious...Does MX2 allow you to multitask ANY program or just the small set that comes with it? I'd find it useful if I could do some thing like: Run UniTerm as one task (downloading a file), unARC the file as a separate task, and during this time format a disk as a third task. I often start d/ling a file and then realize I don't have space on any disks. This is when I kick myself for not having some way to have that idle disk drive format a new disk while I'm using the cpu for other things. I've seen this done on an Amiga relatively easily. Also, how does MX2 measure up to the multitasking environment written by Dave Beckermeyer (sp??)? Enquiring minds want to know. :-) ------------------------------+--------------------------- Chris Mauritz |Everything tastes better cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |when it sits on a (c)All rights reserved. |mauRITZ. 8-> Send flames to /dev/null | ------------------------------+---------------------------
fgbrooks@crash.cts.com (Fred Brooks) (08/17/89)
In article <CMM.0.88.619194627.cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu> you write: >Well, I've been seeing tons of references to MX2 in the latest flurry >of multitask mania. I'm curious...Does MX2 allow you to multitask ANY >program or just the small set that comes with it? I'd find it useful if >I could do some thing like: Run UniTerm as one task (downloading a file), >unARC the file as a separate task, and during this time format a disk as a >third task. I often start d/ling a file and then realize I don't have space >on any disks. This is when I kick myself for not having some way to have >that idle disk drive format a new disk while I'm using the cpu for other >things. I've seen this done on an Amiga relatively easily. > >Also, how does MX2 measure up to the multitasking environment written by >Dave Beckermeyer (sp??)? Enquiring minds want to know. :-) MX2 will run most "well behaved" TOS programs. TOS being programs that use the BIOS I/O calls. I use it to run a BBS "STADEL" program or uucall "a uucp type program for unix mail" in background. As MX2 is a PD program, MTC shell or RTX by Beckermeyer may be a better product but MX2 comes with the complete source. BTW I wrote MX2 and would be glad to give you a copy of the latest version to play with. Or if you use GENIE look for files 11360 and 11361 in the atari archives. I think a copy of a older version is in the atari archives here. Fred brooks >