..but why do people think this cannot be done in dos?
I am writing this email right now.
at the same time waiting for me to log off the Internet wordperfect is
waiting for me, and I will go right back to the document I was working on.
As for downloading, granted I download first to shellworld then to my own
computer now. No reason though why I cannot do this especially having
discovered things like elinks ported for dos, or using the lynx package
for it.
As I see it though I can spend the 30 seconds it takes me to download to
get a drink of water or something.
his for me is where having my own machine's built came in. I have enough
memory used in enough of a fsion that I can task swap fast enough.
I have no idea what you are downloading, but I have multi tasked as I am
doing right now for ages.
Karen
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
On 03/04/2013 01:38 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
...You are avoiding the dos ports question councilor.
I personally have never in all my years of computing needed to do
anything like the below.
I have two hands and two ears, and believe each task deserves my full
attention.
Besides I can do them so fast in dos anyway that by the time I needed to
do this It is over.
Multitasking strikes me as a windows thing because windows works so
badly.
I can listen to a cd while working in dos now if I want to use the
computer for that, but why? It is what my real stereo is for lol.
...but again this is totally only and uniquely me.
I would never wish to suggest that anyone else on the planet computes
like me.
such is the beauty of PC as in *personal* computer.
Now speak to the ports of Linux things professor!
I won't speak to the DOS ports point, but multitasking predates Windows by
quite a bit. It's been available on Unix probably since the beginning.
I could not go back to DOS myself and put up with a single tasking system. I
want to be able to leave my place in an editor or an email message while I
look something up. I want to be able to start a download and go onto
something else while I'm waiting for the download to finish. I want to be
able to kick off a make or a compile that will take a while and go back to
checking my email. I want to kick off the conversion of a batch of .wmv files
to .mp3 files, and I don't want to have to sit around and wait for that to
finish.
Windows is not multi-tasking because it does things so poorly. It's
multi-tasking because people want to run multiple tasks at the same time just
like you can in Unix and other operating systems.
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Tim Chase wrote:
> On March 4, 2013, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Still if elinks and mplayer exist ported for DOS, why go through
> > the extreme mayhem of finding someone local enough to learn speakup
> > and ora and so forth to teach me in the first place?
>
> Well, to be able to use Linux which excels at multi-tasking. So
> even on the console (without a GUI or Orca), you can run yasr/speakup
> to read the screen, but then use either GNU "screen" or "tmux" to run
> multiple virtual terminals within that one yasr/speakup session. Thus
> you can be browsing with lynx in one process (or more), reading email
> in another, playing music in another, have your audio-mixer up all the
> time in another (allowing you to adjust the audio on the fly while
> other stuff is running), managing files in yet another, etc. I
> remember using DOS and having various TSR
> (terminate-and-stay-resident) programs to fake multi-tasking but they
> never worked very well for me.
>
> The virtual terminals are cheaply created, usually with the
> tmux/screen prefix key followed by "c" (for "create"). You can then
> switch between the virtual terminals by using the tmux/screen prefix
> key followed either by "n" (next) or "p" (previous) or by directly
> jumping to the numbered window with the corresponding number key. In
> both tmux and screen, the key mappings are also configurable.
>
> An added benefit of using tmux/screen is that the sessions can be
> detached and then reconnected-to, even from another computer. So you
> might be downstairs working on the Linux box, then go upstairs to
> your workhorse machine and telnet/ssh into your Linux box and
> instruct it to reattach to the session and you can pick up right
> where you left off. All without losing any of your work or running
> programs.
>
> -tim
>
>
>
>
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