Greg Mayman (3:800/449) wrote to Steven Horn at 16:34 on 22 Apr 2003:

 GM> Yes, that was a problem. I looked at a couple of available aps but
 GM> they weren't for me. The ones I use -- and I must admit it is only
 GM> occasionally -- are those that came with it.

At least you got your money's worth.:-)

 GM> Talking of freebies that came with an OS, I remember using
 GM> Macintosh's MacDraw back in the late 80's. That was a powerful
 GM> little beastie!!!!

 GM> I wish I had something like that today!

If you were to buy an IMAC, you would.  They're not my cup of tea but they
do a beautiful job with photographs and video.

 GM> Oh, yes I understand what you're saying. For internet connection it
 GM> certainly is advisable to have stuff like that.

 GM> But as someone pointed out either here or in another echo, this is
 GM> not multitasking since the computer is still doing only one
 GM> function at a time. It isn't even interleaving of tasks as might be
 GM> happening with a print spooler.

It may be doing as many as 20 but it will depend on what's happening when
e-mail arrives or when mail arrives from my hub via Irex.  In any case, the
multi-tasking is pre-emptive so I don't much care.

 GM> The firewall and virus checking are NOT running all the time,
 GM> either in the foreground or the background. Rather it is that tasks
 GM> are routed through them so that they can perform their duties WHEN
 GM> REQUIRED!

To be able to do that, they're eating up cycles. Mailwasher checks my POP
server every 15 minutes.  Atomic Clock has to check its atomic clock every
hour.  At the time I'm writing this, there is one task and 54 processes
active.

 GM> Exactly the same is done in DOS, for example by Thunderbyte. 

Is Thunderbyte a TSR?  Does it pre-empt?
  
Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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