Re: Multi-Tasking on Apple IIgs?

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

"Paul R. Santa-Maria" (paulrsm@buckeye-express.com) writes:
> Michael Black wrote:
>> Have two separate computers next to each other (or three or four if
>> you've got the room) and roll your chair between them.
> 
> Nah.  That is what KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) switches are for.
> Why roll your chair when you can push a button?
> 
Because when the concept occurred to me, it was with Commodore
64's or the like in mind, which really didn't make for easy switching.

Once you get a certain level, the fact that you can do things like
having multiple computers means less and less.  Even four years ago,
when a Mac LC was my main computer, having some secondary computers might
have helped, and certainly there was an appeal in that some smaller
computers were better at things.  I never did much with it, but I
did have my Radio Shack Color Computer running OS-9 hooked to that
Mac via the serial interface, and the CoCo was better for playing
with software bits or controlling things, since it was much more
open hardware.

When I jumped up to a 200MHz Pentium in mid-2001, the best computer
of my life to that point (in terms of capacity and performance, not
in terms of personality), I suddenly realized it was so far ahead
of anything I had lying around that there wasn't much use for anything
else.  I picked up a PowerMac 6100A/V for ten dollars a year later, and
wow that's a pretty neat computer, until compared to the Pentium.  I got
this 1GHz computer last year, and that's even more of a leap forward.
For me, I can't figure out any real use for the 200MHz computer that
would warrant running it at the same time as the 1GHz machine.  I
have way more computing capacity than I need.

   Michael