On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 18:55:15 +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote:

> on BasicLinux, I did think of a killer app that all unix should have,
> and I think its called term - this gives you multiple shells on the one
> terminal but then I recalled that linux has something similar to this
> built in anyway (alt-f1, alt-f2, alt-f3 on BasicLinux gives you
> different ttys) - maybe some ms-dos types who are trying out linux for
> the first time might not appreciate this, but once you learn to
> multitask its very difficult to do without (I learned on my Amiga, could
> run 20+ small programs independently in 512K ram a LONG time ago..)

Hi Iain;
Where were you when the "C"monsters were complaining that you couldn't
multitask in DOS because 640k wasn't enough and you needed 32 bit DOS
extenders and multimegabytes of memeory. <GGG>

- Don Quixote for today.

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