On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:47:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> With Ctrl+Enter/left-mouse you can download a file while reading the
>> current page. I've been thinking of making another kind of "reQuest all
> Hi Bernie
> I wish somebody would change "current" for "any".
> In multitasking Windows I can start downloading a file, I minimize
> the window and go browsing somewhere else. while downloading.
> I am aware that DOS is not multitasking but as a user it doesn't make
> sense to use a browser that I have to keep looking at the same page
> while making a download during half an hour or so.
> A sort of double tasking could be implemented inside Arachne that could
> divide time (80% for downloading, and 20% for browsing or so, every second
> or so ) and this would make mostly everybody including myself, happy about
> using Arachne for a more than 5 minute download. Windows use similar
> scheme for splitting time among tasks. Some cellular phones use it too.
> It is called Time Division Multiplexing.
> "No multitasking but doubletasking"
> Regards
> Luis A. Loeff
You said it! My version of TDM is D/Ling and doing the dishes
simultaniously <g>
- Pete Randolph -
- Morristown Corners, Vermont -
