Odd question.

Back in the day loads of computer programs would remember your key-strokes and then execute them once the program had caught up, if you were working faster than the machine, now hardly any I use do.

If I ask Outlook, for example, for a new mail and start typing straight away it should cope with that and not start paying attention half way through the opening salutation (probably Outlook is a crap example as it has to boot Word I think, but even then surely they can get around this). Loads of other programs do it too, all browsers I've used for starters. In general it sucks having to wait for the computer. I gots shit to do, brah!


Does anyone know why they don't? Just curious.


Peace,

kowalski

Yeah i rememebr those days, i could be 10 seconds in front of what the computer is doing.
in those days processing worked on a queue of requests, so you were in effect just adding to the queue of things to do by typeing at warp factor 10

now Windows introduced Hyperthreading/multitasking - dual processors etc which allows the processor/machine to do more than one thing at once -- i think this works fine when it comes to 2 completely different programs doing somthing at the same time (or in theory it does) but for instance Outlook when you click somthing and it pauses and takes its time then you click somthing else within outlook because the machine tries to process both actions at the same time the program just goes into Not responding mode -- i think the programs arent designed to do 2 different things at once and still work on a que system which brings it into direct comflict with the computer hardware which is trying to force it to do 2 things at once.

does that make sense?

On a side note for all the insane advances in computer hardware over the past 15 years Microsoft has still managed to bog windows down with shit that makes it run like a snail
I really think one of the most important attributes for an employee is a serious abiility to use common sense and understand how the real world works!

I'm pretty sure you can use rocks Linux to multi thread your windows it's how they get supercomputers to work you have to port windows though and it's a lot of work...........please someone prove me wrong so I can finally get this one!!