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Article #187Re: Multiple Levels Of State
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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1981 04:02
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1981 04:02
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Whoever mentioned the MIT Lisp machine solution hit the nail on the head: if (1) there is no notion of "nesting" of suspensions, but rather simply á pool of tasks in various stages of completion which the user ãan switch between at will, and (2) every partially complåted task is represeîted by a VISIBLE OBJECT on the screen, then there is no issue about forgetting partially completed tasks, being forced to complete them in the order they were started, etc., etc. I believe (at leasô I hope) the Star works this way, since all the experimental multi-window systems at PARC do.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!Deutsch@PARC-MAXC From: ucbvax!Deutsch@PARC-MAXC Newsgroups: fa.works Subject: Re: Multiple Levels Of State Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1981 04:02:10 +0000 Message-ID: <anews.Aucbvax.2022>