Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!haven!umd5!carm
From: carm@umd5.umd.edu (Rick Chimera)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Positional note-taking
Summary: need faster windows
Message-ID: <5256@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 89 13:33:45 GMT
References: <1440004@hp-ptp.HP.COM> <1440005@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Reply-To: carm@umd5.umd.edu (Rick Chimera)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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>The problem with this, in my view, is it's not 'real-time'.  I don't know about
>others' X Window systems, but mine takes many, many seconds to create and size
>a window.  I just tried it, and, admittedly, my system is busy and memory-shy,
>but it took 35 seconds to ask the system to create a window, have it appear,
>position it, and size it.  When I'm talking on the phone, I need to jot down a
>note in probably 3 seconds at the most or I'll lose the next comment.
>
>Gary Ericson - Hewlett-Packard, Workstation Systems Division
>               phone: (408)746-5098  mailstop: 101N  email: gary@hpdsla9.hp.com


35 seconds to create a window is absolutely unacceptable on any system!
If your system is single user, then you might as well jump out the window 
(pun?).  Anyway, the problem with my solution is not the solution itself, but
the system on which it would be forced upon.  Granted, that makes my solution
inappropriate for your system; but I don't see the opportunity for many
solutions to look promising on that system other than having a process
ready and waiting to take such notes :-(

Perhaps I'll come up with something in the background over the next couple
of days.

-Rick