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From: rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Background GnuLisp Procedures
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Date: 3 May 88 21:06:28 GMT
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   Date: 15 Apr 88 20:34:17 GMT
   From: "Conor S. Rafferty" <orphan!conor@labrea.stanford.edu>
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   Wouldn't background lisp processes require multiple lisp processes,
   a scheduler etc?  Reminds me of a quote I first heard from Smalltalk
   people:
   "An operating system is everything you left out of the language".

The ADA people probably heard that quote too :-)

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
	National Bureau of Standards
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