Samuel, seems like its a virtual poo this time.
We're not talking about "i've opened a new DOS prompt window!"
multitasking.
We're talking about (HYPOTETIC) ways of getting Arachne to be able
to run its utilities with getting out of CORE.EXE. Such a thing will
allow background midi/wave support, and alot more. And nothing is going
to come out of this thread. Its purly "what if?" "then how?" discussion.
One of the good things about Arachne is that its small.
The Problem, to achive this some of the functions, like JPG to BMP
conversion,
is not internal like in other browsers, and is done by external
utilities.
This is good. Saving size, and you can easily implement small, normal
utilities as part of Arachne.
The problem is that Arachne need to exit from CORE before using any of
those utilities. What we're thinking here is about if its possible to
have CORE to have its own, small, limited multitasking that will let it
function as a single thread. That is, allow it to load those external
utilities without having to quit CORE.
And even if Michael will think that this is a good idea and try to
implement it (which I doubt), I bet it will be optional and easy to
turn off. So dont worry about it.
Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> > I hope I haven't stepped in any poo here.
>
> You stepped in it Clarence! Arachne does not need multi-tasking, and
> neither does any other program in my computer. When I'm running Arachne,
> and I want to run some other program while still connected with Arachne,
> then I just press "ALT + E" to escape to DOS shell. I do what I have to do,
> and when finished, I just type "exit" at the command line. Presto, I'm
> right back into Arachne at the same place where I left off. Who needs
> multi-tasking? With DOS there are already plenty of utilities and
> work-arounds that allow for cutting and pasting between one application
> and another.
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