[Coco] gcc-coco revisited

[John E. Malmberg]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:46:25PM -0600, Roger Taylor wrote:

>I don't understand why M.E.S.S. needs to keep up with all machines 
>emulated, when only one emulation window can be active at a time.

Now that I found out how to get MESS to run in a window...

On my Windows 2000 test machine, I am running 2 MESS emulated machines 
at once, and I would expect that it would work just fine under LINUX.

On a typical "sample" Microsoft Windows program in the programming 
books, the first thing it does is check to see if it is already running, 
and if so to shut down the second copy.  It does not need to do this.
There are a lot of options available to the programmer.  The second copy 
can run independently, or it can signal the first copy to start a new 
window.

X-11 based programs, usually this type of communication is not done.

The MESS.EXE under Microsoft Windows appears to be able run any number 
of copies at once when it is launched from the command line.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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