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Re: A86: Please read this!!! New shell!!! I need help!
Snoops010@aol.com wrote:
>
> 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'
there can be benefits from it, but only if the programs are worthwhile,
like if they had a clipboard to get data from one prog to another (that
is only if it would be worth it to have a word processor, etc. on the
calc)
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