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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Concurrency in the real world
Keywords: computer, funny
Message-ID: <1353@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 89 20:20:05 GMT
References: <4213@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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Stolen from rec.humor.funny...

In article <4213@looking.on.ca> mbr@larch.LCS.MIT.EDU (Mark Reinhold) writes:
| 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?

Gawd!  Oh well, at least we're not "the average person".  :-)

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu