1989 Multitasking Prediction

From an article on a new operating system 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? — New York Times, 25 April 1989

A newspaper clipping from 1989 discusses real concurrency and questions how often ordinary people need programs to run simultaneously. The joke is that modern users constantly multitask and expect applications to respond instantly, making the old prediction amusingly outdated.

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