JEMCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET (03/04/88)
Date: 3 March 1988, 15:40:11 EST From: Jim McCabe JEMCCABE at MTUS5 To: INFO-ATARI16 at SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Subject: MX2 suggestions How about adding another GEMDOS function (there are a few spare function numbers, aren't there?) that is similar to pexec but lets the parent load other background processes. Sure, calling the SYS program (I have the early version of MX2 called AMULTI) will do the same thing but it's not as nice as having the loader also in memory. I ask that you use a GEMDOS call so that Pascal users like myself can still access it. (An XBIOS or BIOS call would work fine too.) (Unfortunately, Pascal folk can't just branch around in memory as easily as we'd like.) With that improvement, lots of new programs could come out that take advantage of multitasking (like multiline BBS programs)! Of course, I'd be just as happy if RTX was released with specs too. +-----------------------+--------------------+------------------+ | Jim McCabe | Bitnet | UUCP | | G31 ECH MTU | ---------- | -------- | | Houghton, MI 49931 | jemccabe @ mtus5 | mccabe @ m-net | +-----------------------+--------------------+------------------+