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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:00:42 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:27:16 -0400, Henderson wrote:

> A lot of phone apps save their exact state when you use the phone's menu
> button to close them and return to the phone's menus. The effect for
> many users is similar to true multitasking, in that they can leave work
> in progress in one app, switch to another, and return to the first
> afterward and continue where they left off. It's just they can't have a
> background job grinding away while they do something else; if they have,
> say, something rendering an animation and switch to another app the
> render makes no progress when they're not in the rendering app.
>
That all sounds remarkably like a Palm Pilot: no multi-tasking, instant 
focus switch, state preserved for all tasks.
 
> One irritation with phone apps saving their state is that they can get
> wedged and be difficult to unwedge.
>
In that cast the Palm Pilot wins: I don't think mine, an ancient 
monochrome M100, has ever gotten wedged.


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