[IP] Concurrency in the real world
Begin forwarded message:
From: Irwin Greenwald <irwingreenwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 10, 2004 11:04:05 AM EST
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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