From: Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin) Subject: Can you access a virtual console directly? Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 08:52:38 -0800
SE> Maybe someone needs to explain to them that they can do
SE> more than one thing
SE> at a time under UNIX, therefore they do not have to be concerned
that each
SE> task in the sequence be as fast as possible. What makes it even
more
SE> amazing is all of the DOS users who buy the latest fastest hardware
to run
SE> single-tasking, single-threaded apps. As someone was
SE> fond of putting in his
SE> sig a couple of years ago, "DOS, just say NO."
Or, perhaps someone might explain to *you* that there is only ONE
physical console on a system, and it ought to be able to achieve
priority, subject to limitations imposed by time-critical device
drivers, etc.
After all, the system display console is *always* running in the
foreground. If you want to reduce the conversation to cute catch
phrases, how about, "Inefficient allocation of resources, just say NO."
;-)
Rob L.
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