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Date: Sun 27-Nov-1991 11:33:47 From: gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth) Subject: irony? holding mouse down delays beep An old teacher of mine used to tell me about the Law of Irony. I'm reading ...01_Mach/_ExceptionHandling.rtf, specifically, the section explaining why Unix signals are outdated, because they are predicated on single-threaded applications. I'm being convinced that NeXT and Mach multi-threaded-everything are so much better, that they'll finish their answers before I finish my questions. In another window, I'm running kermit, sending a file that isn't so long. Instead of watching the periods (.....) march across the screen, I mouse-drag the Terminal scroller to look at something one page above, and I hold the mouse button down for at least thirty seconds. Meanwhile, my kermit transfer has finished, but I don't get the "beep" until after I release the mouse button. Now I know about event queuing, modal loops, and why this happened, I think, but it still seems ironic.
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