[Coco] CoCo and Multitasking

[davidlinsley at gmail.com]

Back in ‘93 I wrote my UK “high school” CS project in BasicO9 running on Level 1 on my Dragon 64. To print screen shots for my report I had another task running that checked for the button on both joysticks being pressed, and then it would dump the screen to an Epson FX-80 compatible printer. At the same time the current user could continue using the program while a second user  all used in from a terminal emulator connected to the Dragon’s serial port. I got good marks for that :)


It was amazing what you could do with just Level 1.


Cheers,

David.






From: Gene Heskett
Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎November‎ ‎7‎, ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎32‎ ‎AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts





On Friday 07 November 2014 06:33:35 Tom Seagrove did opine
And Gene did reply:
> What year did the CoCo first gain the ability to "multitask" ?? 1986
> with OS9 Level II?
> 
> Tom

No, level 1 could but the task size was VERY limited.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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