CompuServe Messages

There are several tricky ways to answer this question "yes." One is to be talking about an Amiga with a Bridgeboard. This setup gives you a second microprocessor, which can drive its own video card. Presto, two monitors & two tasks at once. Another is to be talking about an Amiga with a dumb terminal plugged into its serial port and running CLI rather than GUI software. Presto, ExpressPaint on the color monitor and ARexx on the terminal. (If you have a fairly strong visual sense, you can of course run DigiPaint 3 or PageRender 3D over a dumb terminal using their ARexx ports. You won't be able to see what you are doing, but you will get results.) Yet another is to be talking about an Amiga with a 24-bit frame buffer. One task can be rendering artwork to the framebuffer while another computes your income taxes. Finally, of course, there is the Amiga-under-the-Amiga strategy. One Amiga can be networked via serial or parallel cable to another, slave Amiga. A second- or third-hand Amiga 1000 does nicely. Then the master Amiga can command the slave to execute and display on its slave monitor. THol() { cout << "Sir, I exist." ;}