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View Poll Results: Do you need multi-tasking? | |
Absolutly Not
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Rarely
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Sometimes
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Most of the time
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Always
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05-05-2003, 02:45 AM
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#1 | | ScreensOS Designer
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Israel
Posts: 278
 |  Do you need multi-tasking?
Do you have a need for using many applications at once? | 
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05-05-2003, 04:14 AM
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#2 | | Go Spartan !!!
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere warm
Posts: 752
| Yep...
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05-05-2003, 04:36 AM
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#3 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Terre Haute, IN
Posts: 45
| Could definitely be useful... | |
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05-05-2003, 05:51 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 214
| I don't get it. My PPC supposedly Multitasks. Sure, it has lots of programs open at once. But I can only actually be using one at a time. And I'm still at least 2 taps away from every other program. How is this any different than what we do on the Palm OS. Oh yeah, and sometimes I foget to close all those programs. Then I can't sync. | |
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05-05-2003, 06:21 AM
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#5 | | ?
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Germany
Posts: 1,363
| We already have extentions, DAs, hacks, silkplugins, background applications ... POS has great multi-tasking capabilities, however most applications choose to save their data, close themselves and just restore the data at the next startup, which isn't much slower then staying in memory and redrawing the screen on restore, as most programs are only about 300k in size anyway.
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05-05-2003, 06:23 AM
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#6 | | ?
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Germany
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| Oh and I use multitasking to listen to music while doing any work.
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05-05-2003, 06:24 AM
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#7 | | 20gigs of Karma
Join Date: May 2002 Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
Posts: 1,697
| The apps I find I need true multitasking with are all of my "online" apps such as Netfront, WebproV, Verichat, Cliemail.... etc.
Transfering data between different apps would also be easier if we had multitasking. | |
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05-05-2003, 06:30 AM
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#8 | | Retired Member
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Manchester, NJ
Posts: 12,444
| I can do only one thing at a time  !
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05-05-2003, 07:11 AM
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#9 | | ?
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Germany
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| Quote: Originally posted by OcellNuri
Transfering data between different apps would also be easier if we had multitasking. |
How come? I mean a browser with auto-disconnect disabled, a cache wich will always display the old version until it has retrieved the new version of a file and a open last page on startup option wouldn't be any worse would it? Has IMHO not much to do with multitasking
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05-05-2003, 07:32 AM
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#10 | | Guest | In a such a small screen, multitasking can actually be a negative point. One of the main things I hated about my PPC is that it had all these apps open, but on the PALM it is much more usable.
I hope OS5 doesn't get into the PPC mentality of bloated soft, and bigger processors. | |
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05-05-2003, 07:46 AM
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#11 | | 20gigs of Karma
Join Date: May 2002 Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
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| Quote: Originally posted by hansschmucker
How come? I mean a browser with auto-disconnect disabled, a cache wich will always display the old version until it has retrieved the new version of a file and a open last page on startup option wouldn't be any worse would it? Has IMHO not much to do with multitasking |
I agree with you, that if you have the right setup then there is not much of a problem. I am thinking of other situations though.
I recently got SplashID and had to get all of my information from the MemoPad into SplashID. Everytime you exit SplashID, you have to put in the password to get back in. This made it pretty tedious. Also, while in the built in address book, if you leave and come back it does not keep a contact open. I have also found myself wishing for multitasking while using Mapopolis. If I leave ther app to look up a phone number or note, I lose the route I have plotted.
I am on no way dissatisfied with how the PalmOS behaves. I think the one-app-at-one-time approach has kept things simple for the user, and the developer as far as free memory and other resources go. I am honest, though, when I say there are times when I wish I could have more than one app going at once.
*Posted from Latin class on the NX* | |
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05-05-2003, 07:48 AM
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#12 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Toronto
Posts: 16
| I never really missed multitasking until I got my 802.11b card for my NX70v. Then it became absolutely necessary.
I always inhabit IRC when I'm online, and the ability to be able to background an IRC client to check out an URL is a nobrainer. Currently, you're left with jumping in and out of IRC every time you want to watch Netfront crawl and complain about pages too big.
Argh. | |
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05-05-2003, 08:13 AM
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#13 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 7
| Specially for internet ussage with instant messenger programs and web browsing I really miss the multitask! Would it be possible to develope a software in order to handle tasks?
Guillermo | |
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05-05-2003, 08:31 AM
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#14 | | save the day Silver Contributor
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: NC, USA
Posts: 2,374
| Quote: Originally posted by gferreroferri
Specially for internet ussage with instant messenger programs and web browsing I really miss the multitask! Would it be possible to develope a software in order to handle tasks?
Guillermo | I agree with you and Ocell. This is where I miss it.
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05-05-2003, 08:32 AM
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#15 | | save the day Silver Contributor
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*Posted from Latin class on the NX*
| You sick little monkey.
*ahem* Actually, I took 2 years of Spanish in HS and then 2 years of Latin in college. WTF was I thinking?
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