A well written Windows app should be fully re-entrant throughout and an
extra instance should not present much in the way of additional
overhead. However, not all apps are well written. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/28/2010 11:51 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: Wayne Harridge<wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I usually have about 6 instances of a terminal emulator running on
>> my work PC continuously.
>
> Is this because you can't have more than one window open in a single
> instance of your terminal emulator?
>
> To me, having multiple instances of an application running -- versus
> having a single instance with multiple windows -- seems wasteful of
> OS resources, but perhaps Windows has improved in that regard since
> NT.
>
> ---------------- Men who allow their love of power to give them a
> distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man
> will think he is the governer of the Bank of England, another will
> think he is the king, and yet another will think he is God. Highly
> similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language,
> lead to professorships of philosophy, and if expressed by emotional
> men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships. -- Bertrand Russell
> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
>
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