Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!cdollin!kers From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) Newsgroups: comp.human-factors Subject: Re: Audio feedback from GUI's Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 13:00:27 GMT References: <1991Jun12.171211.2716@cs.umn.edu> <31228@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jun12.202741.16629@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun12.215523.7379@cs Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: brsmith@cs.umn.edu's message of 12 Jun 91 21:55:23 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: cdollin.hpl.hp.com Brian R. Smithm says: Sort ("riffle-riffle" - paper shuffling, only for as long as sorting takes. Obviously, there are a LOT of possibilities for cpu-bound tasks, since the user is probably bored to death waiting anyway...) Why should the user be bored? They just run tetris, or patience, or .... (almost anything that doesn't need vast amounts of CPU itself). -- Regards, Chris ``GC's should take less than 0.1 second'' Dollin.