JEMCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET (01/15/88)
Date: 15 January 1988, 10:31:19 EST From: Jim McCabe JEMCCABE at MTUS5 To: INFO-ATARI16 at SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Subject: $$$FREE$$$ multitasking kernal! The comments made by David Beckmeyer are _exactly_ the type I've been waiting for. I would love to have a low-cost multitasking kernal available for the ST! Sheesh, it doesn't even have to be free. I'm sure most people would be willing to fork() out a few bucks for a really nice multitasking kernal. However, if it's really going to make a dent, it's probably going to have to be PD or shareware. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come out with such a system! (Hell, something this good is almost enough to give a man religion! :) +-----------------------+------------------------------------+ | Jim McCabe | BITNET: jemccabe @ mtus5.bitnet | | G31 ECH MTU | UUCP: mccabe2 @ mtuvaxb.uucp | | Houghton, MI 49931 | mccabe @ m-net.uucp | +-----------------------+------------------------------------+
avy@yugas.UUCP (Avy MOISE) (01/20/88)
Get OS-9/68000 (the personal version is about 150.00). I have been using it for about one year on the Atari-ST and have never touched GEM/TOS since. OS-9/68000 is a TRUE/FAST/REAL multitasking/multiuser system... Unix(TM etc.) is almost as good as OS-9.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- No I am not working for Microware System Corporation... --------------------------------------------------------------Avygdor Moise
tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter) (01/24/88)
In article <701@yugas.UUCP>, avy@yugas.UUCP (Avy MOISE) writes: > > Get OS-9/68000 (the personal version is about 150.00). I have been using it > for about one year on the Atari-ST and have never touched GEM/TOS since. Your available software just got very limited if you aren't going to use GEM/TOS, especially graphics. Note: I don't really use the mouse interface myself since it is so crappy compared to the Mac. I have a home brew UNIX ksh like environment. > OS-9/68000 is a TRUE/FAST/REAL multitasking/multiuser system... add ^/REALTIME here > Unix(TM etc.) is almost as good as OS-9.... This may have been humor, but when you are talking about a small machine with no MMU OS/9 is FAR superior to UNIX except in volumn of software. Although the available software that would run under UNIX on anything but a 2 Meg memory and 20 Meg hard disk ST is rather limited.... Maybe a shared segment version with the kernel and standard libraries stuck out on the ROM port? Hum, that might work. Idris has a bad reputation on the PC. But, what should we expect? CP/M 68K and GEM have bad reputations too. That's why Atari gets them cheap enough for their tastes. > -----Avygdor Moise --j.a.tainter
greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks) (01/29/88)
What about minix???? Granted it isn't exactly free, but at US$80, its pretty close. I saw an article which said shipping in June. Minix will probably fix the 40 folder bug too :-). It will probably port to the amiga quite easily too. There, no more my amari is better than your your atiga wars. Time to buy a hard disk! -- Greg Franks XIOS Systems Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue, (613) 725-5411 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R8 utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg "There's so much to sea in Nova Scotia"