Re: A86: Please read this!!! New shell!!! I need help!


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Re: A86: Please read this!!! New shell!!! I need help!



Joseph Gaffney wrote:

> At 12:01 PM 9/9/97 -0400, Snoops010@aol.com wrote:
> >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'
>
> Sorry, but you're absolutely wrong =).  I will take it from 2
> perspectives....
>
> A) MATH - You have a program that rezquires that you have one value,
> but
> can figure out the second value.  The second value can be used to find
> the
> first value.  Lets call them values A and B....
>
> You have a program that can solve A based on B.  What you want to do,
> instead of repeatedly running these programs (saying, of course, you
> cant
> program a way to do this), is to switch back and forth between the 2,
> finding B, then using it to find A using the other program.
>
> Now, this is a very basic idea, but you can sort of see what I mean.
> This
> is very simplified, and is fairly common - the uses of numbers are so
> great
> that a program cannot be made to do it all.  Therefore, this would be
> helpful.
>
> B) GAMES - You are in math class, but feel like playing games.
> HOWEVER,
> you don't want to get caught.  So, you switch between a program to
> find the
> answers to what your teacher is discussing and the game you want to
> play.
> As long as you don't scream out "A NEW HI SCORE!!!", you're pretty
> safe =)
> Haha. thats right. =) . Cant believe your still talking about that. I
> sent that mail eons ago...
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