From: Castor Fu castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU
Subject: keyboard accelerators
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 20:00:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950427000059.4eo9-lRo1ywSDSqOHgrfFt4CSXCKvUz7q7DbVB1zvu0@z> (raw)
> forget typeahead. multitasking is a sign of real bloat. quote from
> the New York Times, 25 April 1989:
>
> 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?
The New York Times is not the only authority to have said this.
In Nikalus Wirth's Project Oberon one of the great simplifications
he makes is to not have multitasking. Instead concentrates on making
the programming environment so dynamic that one doesn't miss it.
Obviously there are tasks where this model is simply inapplicable,
but if you can rebuild your kernel in a few seconds. . .
-castor
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