Being an utter nerd I find that the way I handle multi-tasking is similar in some ways to popular 16-bit computer architectures (see, I did warn you). I certai

Being an utter nerd I find that the way I handle multi-tasking is similar in some ways to popular 16-bit computer architectures (see, I did warn you). I certainly find that I'm able to Context Switch like early versions of Atari TOS, Windows and certain forms of extended DOS, but there is a penalty. Some of my tasks most certainly terminate and stay resident (i.e. I switch to task B but am still committing mental activity to task A), but as long as I plan what I'm doing, switching between things is no more difficult than saving my text in edit.com, starting lotus 1-2-3 and importing the text (forget cut and paste, I have a 16-bit mind in a 64-bit world, and only 512k of RAM to play with). On the other hand, depending on the task I can do certain types of task and switch pre-emptively, just like Amiga Workbench. Like Amiga Workbench, I often find that I can only really do one thing at a time but things do carry on in the background. Some might call it intuition, but I can tell if a need to context switch is coming up and if the task doesn't require that much by way of resources then I'm fine doing both at roughly the same time, there is an impact on resources, but it's not always externally visible.