Re: Switch-It! question

[gwlester@cpu.com (Gerald W. Lester)]

In article <28fkq9$kbj@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU>, daye@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Critical Mass) writes:
>
>Multi-tasking is one thing Switch-It! doesn't do, though there are *NO* 
>GS programs that will multi-task on a broad basis.  The Manager says it does,
>but in practical use it doesn't.  Switch-It! uses stack sharing to get around
>programs like Appleworks GS that hog a large amount of valuable bank 0 RAM
>space.  If you want to try before you buy, check out the SI! demo.  
>
>(Disclaimer: I'm not associated with 7Hills or Procyon in either way.  I have
>not seen the actual release version of SI!, but I have used the release version
>of TM.)
>
>-- 
>|Evan Day                | "Plans made in the nursery can change the

Evan,

	I think it would be more correct to say that there are *NO* GS programs
that will do preemptive (sp?) multi-tasking on multiple desktop applications. 
GNO (also from Procyon) does preemptive multi-tasking on multiple shell based
GS specific applications and upto one GS specific desktop applications.  The
current (2.0.1) release even implements mutli-user and print spooling (from
both shell and desktop applications.


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