BL>   Gee, thanks, Paul. That's a great help!



Sorry. It won't happen again :-)



 PM>> Ah! therein lies the story! You see, some people have what

 PM>> could be termed serial brains. That is they can only think of

 PM>> one thing at once. So, for instance, they can't read a message

 PM>> and actually understand what it's about.



 BL>   That's why they like OS/2. They think it'll do multitasking.



I thought it was the people who bought the Microsoft marketing hype that
thought they were getting multitasking. The OS/2 users *know* they are
getting it (assuming they can install the thing in the first place :-))



 PM>> THe parallel brains don't have this limitation and can, say,

 PM>> chew on a piece of toast and read the paper at the same time.



 BL>   I've actually seem people fall down stairs and scream at the same

 BL> time. Amazing!



Wow!



 BL> Preemptive multitasking is the way to go. Cooperative

 BL> MT requires too much intelligence. There is always the risk of eating

 BL> the paper and reading the toast.



Eating the paper is probably healthier. Reading the toast probably makes more sense.



Personally, at work I'm interrupt driven. Some body rings me with a problem
and I put aside what I'm doing to look at their problem. The next person
rings and I start looking at that. So by the end of the day I've started a
dozen tasks and haven't finished any!





Paul



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