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From: dsc@izimbra.CSS.GOV (manic pop thrill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface)
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Date: 4 Mar 88 21:46:11 GMT
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In article <9786@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) writes:
>In article <241@eos.UUCP> lyman@eos.UUCP (Lyman Taylor) writes:
>>	Think about it.  When have you ever seen anyone, including yourself,
>>doing two things at once ( like running a spredsheet and SIMULTANEOUSLY writing
>>something into your favorite editor ).  I give you a hint most computers I seen
>
>I *routinely* do things in parallel in different windows.  At its most
>extreme, this means using several windows on my Sun to watch debugging
>output from rlogin sessions running communicating network peers on

i cannot speak for the original poster, but what i think he was trying
to say was that at any one time you (the human) would not be typing
into two editors at once, or would not be filling in two dialog boxes
at once, or would not be typing a spreadsheet command at exactly the
same time you are typing text into an editor.  you can be running a
number of programs simultaneously, but at any one time you are
interacting (using the mouse, keyboard, lightpen, etc) with at most
one.  although there may be other windows on the screen where
computation is going on, or data is being printed, there is only one
window that the user is interacting with directly.

dsc

dsc

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