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From: pardo@uw-june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Coverage of multitasking
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Date: 22 Aug 89 17:55:34 GMT
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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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Edited by Brad Templeton.  MAIL, yes MAIL your jokes to funny@looking.ON.CA
Attribute the joke's source if at all possible.  I will reply, mailers willing.

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