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Aucbvax.2116 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works@mit-ai 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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