TIB: Multitasking


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TIB: Multitasking




First of all... I just want to say that this OS crap about Windows vs Mac
OS vs ChooseYourFlavorOfUnix is ridiculous.  Take it somewhere else. 
Everyone knows CPM/80 is best.  A TI-83 might even run it . . . ;-)

As far as multitasking, I think that all of the previous attempts at
multitasking have been good but have been looking at it from the wrong
direction.  On a PC people do many things: word processing, games,
spreadsheets, internet, etc.  On a caclulator, what do you do?  Very
specialized mathematical programs or games, basically. I was thinking
(that can be bad ;-) . . . wouldn't it be easiest to do a kind of
half-multitasking?  (kind of like the PTSR solution) 

Consider this scenario:  You're sitting in math, playing Penguins.  You
want to pause your game and run your quadratic formula program.  You hit
[MODE][ENTER] and Penguins passes whatever it needs to to variables and
lists.Mr. Shell stores all of the variables to a list and backs up L1
through L6, etc. etc.  You run your quadratic formula program.  Then you
quit that and run Penguins, your variables are stored and Penguins picks
up where it left off.

Is this good, or am I loony?

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