Re: A86: Please read this!!! New shell!!! I need help!
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Re: A86: Please read this!!! New shell!!! I need help!
In a message dated 97-09-06 05:54:18 EDT, you write:
> Dan Eble wrote:
> > > -TASKS TRAY (works with multitasking)
> > > -MULTITASKING
> >
> > I don't want to get into an argument over this. (Well, maybe I do.)
> > Multitasking on the TI-86 is not that useful. How often do you need
> > to FTP a file, spool a print job, and read your email concurrently on
> > your calculator?
> <Snip>
> >
> > > -TI-OS COMMAND LINE
> >
> > That's a cute idea. I have a better idea, though. How about making the
> > shell so easy to activate that you can bounce out and back in with just
> > one or two key strokes? That would be more efficient and elegant.
>
> I like Jimmy Merdell's idea of making multitasking just a way of pausing
> one process and starting another. I agree that it would be silly with
> the amount of processor speed we have to try and get them to run
> simultaneously, but I think that the ability to pause and switch
> (especially to the TI-OS Command line) would be useful.
>
> Stan
>
I must agree with Dan. I mean, what's the point??!! Even if you pause the
program for so-called multitasking, it wouldn't really be multitasking. The
other programs wouldn't be running, they'd just be paused! So you couldn't
benefit from 'multitasking'
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