Re: Multitask 16 and 8 bit on GS???

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (GUDAT,HENRIK MICHAEL)]

In <3ebajf$dg7@paris.ics.uci.edu> jlee@ics.uci.edu writes:

> Jimmy Shaw (eaiu184@rigel.oac.uci.edu) wrote:
> : I think an old piece of sotware by Roger Wanger Publishing (the HyperStudio
> : people,) called SoftSwitch (?) could multitask several 8-bit program.
> 
> I though it was more like a 8-bit program switcher than a multitasker.

Yup, just a switcher. It worked only with a memory expansion card.

The program stored a complete memory dump in the RAM eexpansion card and
swapped it with main memory on the user's request. As far as I remember, this
memory swapping was pretty slow.

- henrik