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Concurrency in the real world

mbr@larch.LCS.MIT.EDU (Mark Reinhold)
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
(computer, funny)

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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