SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (06/20/88)
>Well, why does anyone want multi-tasking in the first place? I mean >*REALLY*? Think about it... > >Ok, sometimes I want to have my //e call up the vax and download a file or >something silly like that. Then I would have two processes, one doing the >download, the other at my disposal. Or maybe I want to compute a >mandlebrot, and also hack at same time. Again, two processes. Gee, I discovered the solution to that a couple of years ago. It's called a //c! You just buy one (from 47th Computer - it'll cost you MUCH less that the DRAM and hassle multi-processing on a IIgs would involve) and plop it down on the desk next to the //e or IIgs. You let the //c download files whilst "creating" on the IIgs, or let the faster IIgs calcluate the mandelbrot while you play Zaxxon on the //c. The real beauty of a //c as a "multiprocessor" is if one program crashes, the other isn't hung. Even a SEVERE hardware crash necessitating a visit to the Apple-doctor doesn't wipe out both systems (lightning bolts excepted). --------------------- Disclaimer: The "look and feel" of this message is exclusively MINE! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut
ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (06/21/88)
In article <8806200247.aa09779@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: >>Well, why does anyone want multi-tasking in the first place? I mean >>*REALLY*? Think about it... >Gee, I discovered the solution to that a couple of years ago. It's called >a //c! You just buy one (from 47th Computer - it'll cost you MUCH less >that the DRAM and hassle multi-processing on a IIgs would involve) Well, I did that (I have a //e and ][+), but now I find that I want to do 5 things at the same time (word processing, MIDI music composition, home control, voice mail, packet radio BBS, phone BBS, and dialing to work.) The granularity of rebooting is a bit too slow and destructive for this mix of applications, so I really want things co-resident, and maybe doing something when I'm not 'working' on the main thing. -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK} Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA