Well Karen, first, thank you, you probably inspired a most exciting-and-useful
group of discussions in a long history of these lists.
Now, about your basic question here, in this day-and-age since bandwidth and
file sizes are larger, it sure make life easier to muti-task. As an example, I
have 23 consoles in Linux. Console 1 I am constantly on Shellworld, while
console 13 sits in my news videos directory-and-I may be downloading a large
speech from get_flash_videos. While I can switch over to console 4 and play
from a large collection of mp3s. On console 23 I would be watching or
recording a newscast from Aljazeera. I remember many years ago in pure DOS
with a dialup, uploading a 59MB file which took 11hours. I could do anything
with the machine for all that time. Likewise I wouldn't go back, but also like
the chance to run DOS in Linux. I have a homepage creating program which only
runs in DOS, so I have the best of both worlds.
In addition, I haven't mentioned even longer actions such as downloading
bittorrents or grabbing files in trn on usenet.
And with now 4sound-cards I have even more options.
Thanks again
Hart
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