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In article <8038@uunet.UU.NET> dsc@izimbra.CSS.GOV (manic pop thrill) writes:
|i cannot speak for the original poster, but what i think he was trying
|to say was that at any one time you (the human) would not be typing
|into two editors at once, or would not be filling in two dialog boxes
|at once, or would not be typing a spreadsheet command at exactly the
|same time you are typing text into an editor.  you can be running a
|number of programs simultaneously, but at any one time you are
|interacting (using the mouse, keyboard, lightpen, etc) with at most
|one.  although there may be other windows on the screen where
|computation is going on, or data is being printed, there is only one
|window that the user is interacting with directly.

A couple of small points. Roger Sperry, who was awarded the Nobel
Prize a few years ago might disagree with you on whether humans can
do two things simultaneously or not.

But that doesn't belong to this newsgroup.

SunView allows you to split the focus, so all keyboard activity goes
towards one window, and all mouse activity follows the mouse curser.

So you could do one activity with the keyboard, and another with the
mouse. 

-- You mean you DON'T read USENET while playing SDI (e.g. missile command)? -

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