Aucbvax.2116
fa.works
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Sun Jul 5 10:52:12 1981
Multiple Levels of State
>From LEAVITT@USC-ISI Sun Jul 5 10:43:22 1981
For general purposes, the LISP approach seems entirely
reasonable. For a workstation, I'm not so sure -- this
is a very special case. There are a relatively limited
number of types of things I am likely to be doing, and
each of them has its own intrinsic priority. When they
are interrupted, they carry with them an implication of
how soon they should be resumed.
For example, if I have to interrupt a phone call and put
somebody on hold, this is basically different from what
happens as I am going through my in-box and someone comes
into my office. Granted, I would like to keep track of
where I was both in the phone call, and in the in-box, but
my system should and could be smart enough to understand
the difference, and indicate that YOU HAVE SOMEONE ON HOLD,
TURKEY, before I finish the interruption and go out for a
cup of coffee. Incidentally, I have been know to leave
people on hold in just such a situation.
Also incidentally, I am not totally crazy about have
a bunch of little icons filling up my screen with
unterminated projects. My desk looks like that right
now, and that is exctly what I hope to get away from.
Mike
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