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Aucbvax.2144 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works Tue Jul 7 06:42:33 1981 Re: Spatial design for a workstation >From Zellich@OFFICE-3 Tue Jul 7 06:40:32 1981 I currently use a system that keeps track of the previous infile locations, the previous file(s), and the previous programs/tools. It is very handy to be able to do this, but it *does* have some drawbacks. One is that there is a finite number of such things that can be kept track of, so occasionally you lose track of the nth-back thing (the computer does, anyway - you may still remember it yourself); the other main drawback is that sometimes you *don't* want to keep track of everything you just did.

You can't win, really. Either the system tries to keep track of *everything* and makes it really confusing to go back through the ring structures after being online for a couple of hours, or the user must issue an explicit command to either "save" or to "don't save" when interrupting to somewhere else.

-Rich Zellich -------

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