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Article #543Re: Coverage of multitasking
From: David Keppel
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1989 17:55
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1989 17:55
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>[Ongoing discussion of introducing parallel programming early]
From rec.humor.funny, and reputedly from the New York Times. N-joy.
;-D on ( Ridicule parallelism ) Pardo
Article 1296 of rec.humor.funny:
From: mbr@larch.LCS.MIT.EDU (Mark Reinhold)
Subject: Concurrency in the real world
Date: 21 Aug 89 10:30:04 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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New York Times, 25 April 1989, in an article on new operating systems for the
IBM PC:
Real concurrency---in which one program actually continues to function
while you call up and use another---is more amazing but of small use to the
average person. How many programs do you have that take more than a few
seconds to perform any task?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-uw-june!pardo From: pardo@uw-june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Coverage of multitasking Message-ID: <9054@uw-june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 22 Aug 89 17:55:34 GMT References: <12126@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <6291@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1989Aug21.210122.4460@cs.rochester.edu> Reply-To: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 30