Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m...
by mixmastamyk on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:46PM
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> That was just not possible on a console
You may be thinking of DOS, which yes had almost no multitasking ability available.
However there were multiple timesharing operating systems that existed before the PC and GUIs, Unix being the most famous and still around.
Multitasking is quite possible on a Linux console for example. It has 5 or more consoles, each handling different users, each being able to be split via screen/tmux. Each shell can run jobs in the background as well.
You may be thinking of DOS, which yes had almost no multitasking ability available.
However there were multiple timesharing operating systems that existed before the PC and GUIs, Unix being the most famous and still around.
Multitasking is quite possible on a Linux console for example. It has 5 or more consoles, each handling different users, each being able to be split via screen/tmux. Each shell can run jobs in the background as well.