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>From: barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort)
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Subject: Re: Algorithms+DataStructures!=FEELINGS
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In article <1991Nov6.191234.1655@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
(Mark William Hopkins) writes:

   In article <BARRY.91Oct23094655@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu>
barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:

   >Notwithstanding the fact that my brain is made of meat instead of silicon,
   >it is nevertheless my principal information-processing organ. Information
   >from the world in which I am embedded streams in through my senses and
   >lands on various lobes where it is parsed and decoded.  Some of this
   >information stream is of sufficient import that it places my brain and
   >mind into notable states:  Alarm, Amusement, Anxiety, Confusion, Curiosity,
   >Excitement, Fascination, Intrigue, Jealousy, Puzzlement, Vexation, and on
   >beyond Zebra.

   That makes you a threaded multitasker, with task pre-emption bound to
   interrupt priorities, and task-switching driven asynchronously by  
   interrupts.

Yep.  And boy do I hate those interrupts.

   So, I guess that's what it means to feel. :)

Well, that's part of it, anyway.

Barry Kort


