Multi-processing isn't just for end users. The vast majority of
multi-processing is done by your programs without your even knowing it.
For example, if you open a web page, your browser is going to start
several download processes at once if there are several images on the
page. A better example might be a mail program. While you're composing a
mail message, it's checking for new messages. When you get done
composing the message any messages sent to you while you worked are
already in your inbox. In fact, many apps go beyond multi-processing to
parallel processing. A browser might not just start downloading several
images at a time, it might have several different processes to handle
different parts of each image.
On 3/4/2013 3:03 PM, Hart Larry wrote:
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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