[3255] in Central_America
New quotes for Thu Mar 7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Mar 7 01:31:52 1991
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 91 01:31:16 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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allenshu (Luke Skywalker):
To own the world,
To own the universe,
To own all that there is,
To make the people serve me,
And call me Master.
That is my plan.
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carla (Carla Jean Fermann):
./%N
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
Putrescent Philosopher:
So you say that life is dull, and you need some excitement. Well,
here's Uncle Dave with a few suggestions:
1) You will need a car for this, but for added fun, use a cab. Go to
the first McDonalds you come across, drive up to the window, and order
some random items. Now, go to the next McDonalds you find, and again,
drive up to the window; but place the exact same order. When you
reach the window, *hand* them the bag of food and demand payment.
2) Dress only in your most ratty pair of shorts, carry a Coleman
lantern, and wander through the public parks in Houston looking for an
honest man. Granted, it's an old idea, but it seemed to work for that
Greek guy.
3) Shave half your beard and then do #2. Houston police won't know
what in the hell to do with you.
4) Bicycle chicken. The key here is to never turn away from oncoming
cyclists, remain confident that your bicycle is sturdy enough to
handle some violent collisions. This works best with professors and
mounted police.
5) The old standby: Bomb threat! Cancel classes and go to the beach.
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daishi (Daishi Harada):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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debbo (Deborah A Birnby):
gone fishin' (or will be gone real soon, depending on when you read this)
see y'all on the 19th-ish.
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dmweis (David M Weisberg):
Hi, my name is Dave Weisberg, and this is my plan file.
* * * *
Sorry, I don't exist any more. I left Athena at Wed Mar 6 17:25:26 EST 1991.
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doughty (Francis Doughty):
PLAN/SCHEDULE: I work part-time, 3-days/week, at MIT.
I am in from 8:50 - 4:50 on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY.
Aberrations, vacation days, etc. are posted on the door to 36-677.
Please feel free to call me at home (508/ 544-5450). If you leave a
message, I'll get back to you.
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gamadrid (George A Madrid):
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
In the future:
3/12 Kristine's birthday
3/17 Kristine's bridal shower (Don't get wet :-) )
report 2 for 6.033
1.101 project proposal (heh, heh just wait...)
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Words-n-stuff for the day:
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ricker69 (Richard J Rodriguez):
Wow...It's so good to be alive in the '90's...Back in the High life again...
Well, you have just fingered THE one and only Rick Rodriguez...you
don't know what you are in for...so here goes...
As far as Musical interests, i listen to almost anything that qualifies as
music...Things that don't qualify are C&W, "Alternative", industrial, thrash,
(though sometimes that's good for a tension release...a little head-bangin
never hurt anyone) and most heavy metal and other assorted "acid rock."
Favorite group: Petra Favorite singer: Michael W. Smith
Favorite shows would be Star Trek (old and new), The Muppet show, Sesame
Street, and Airwolf...Movie titles range from, again, Star Trek, to Firebirds,
Ghost, Glory, Henry V and Fiddler on the Roof...
Okay...so i have a wide variety of interests...but what am I like? That
could be a dangerous question...my friends say i'm from another planet,
namely Kamekron, the fourth from Cygnus, which is purported to be a black
hole...that's a buch of hooey...i was born in 273 B.C. Earth time
and came to Earth in 1973, with five other kamekronians...we are all
energy beings, though I took on human form to better study and get
acquainted with earthlings...Continued quiestioning of these same friends
will reveal a guy who's not exactly working on all thrusters...I have a
tendency to be a little, shall we say, abnormal, spontaneous, eccentric,
unpredictable, uninhibited, bordering on insane, you get the picture...
with a very warped sense of logic and reality...or so i have been told...
Other than that, i'm you're typical average JimBob...
To finish off...two little tidbits, and peeks, into the "real" (*cough*) me...
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"Remember: wherever you go, there you are..." - Buckaroo Banzai
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"Excuse me, miss...is your father a thief?"
"No...Why?"
"Hmmm...then who climbs up into the evening sky and steals the brightest
evening stars and puts them in your eyes?"
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ack...I hope you enjoyed reading this...It should make you think twice
before you finger someone again...Feel free to leave me email if you are
interested in anything you have read...I love meeting new people...
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"y'all come back now, ya here?!"
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-Ricker
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sconahan (Steven G Conahan):
"Let's take a break so that we can coagulate our thoughts..."
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spaxton (Scott Paxton):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
Don't pull too hard, like a kite in the wind
You'll break the string, when I reel you in
Don't take off flying all on your own
When you finally come knocking, there'll be nobody home
Nobody Home
- Heart
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vanharen (Chris `syndic' VanHaren):
Excerpted from AT&T's patent #4,555,775, which they have claimed that
X's backing-store feature violates. I have a printed copy of the
patent, if anyone is interested. The claims below are the most
important part of the document, though.
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United States Patent Number: 4,555,775
Applied for: Oct. 7, 1982
Granted: Nov. 26, 1985
Inventor: Robert C. Pike, Berkeley Heights, NJ
Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
Title:
DYNAMIC GENERATION AND OVERLAYING OF GRAPHIC WINDOWS FOR
MULTIPLE ACTIVE PROGRAM STORAGE AREAS
ABSTRACT
A graphic terminal is disclosed using bitmaps to represent plural
overlapping displays. Graphics software is also disclosed in which the
overlapping asynchronous windows or layers are manipulated by
manipulating the bitmaps. With this software, the physical screen
becomes several logical screens (layers) all running simultaneously, any
one of which may be interacted with at any time.
CLAIMS
What is claimed is:
1. A computer terminal display system comprising a display surface,
means for simultaneously displaying a plurality of overlapping
rectangular graphic layers on said surface, wherein each of said
graphic layers comprises an autonomous level of graphical
information,
means for associating each of said graphic layers with an
independent computer program,
means for storing a complete bitmap for each of said graphic layers,
and
means responsive to the associated one of said independent computer
programs for continuously updating each of said bitmaps.
2. The display system according to claim 1 wherein said bitmaps for
all partially obscured ones of said graphic layers comprise a plurality
of partial bitmaps of obscured areas linked together.
3. The display system according to claim 2 wherein said interacting
means includes a keyboard.
4. The display system according to claim 1 further comprising means
for selectively interacting with any one of said graphic layers.
5. The display system according to claim 4 wherein said interacting
means comprises a graphical cursor control device.
6. The display system according to claim 1 further comprising means
for selectively displaying any one of said graphic layers in the topmost
unobscured position.
7. A graphics terminal comprising
a display,
a keyboard,
a graphics control device, and
programmed apparatus for controlling said terminal, said apparatus
comprising
means responsive to said control device for creating a plurality of
overlapping display layers on said display, wherein each of said
display layers comprises an autonomous level of graphical
information, and
means for associating each of said display layers with an
independent computer program, and
means responsive to said keyboard for interacting with any selected
one of said display layers to create, execute and display the
output of an independent computer program.
8. The graphics terminal according to claim 7 further comprising
means for creating a bitmap corresponding to each of said display
layers, and
means for maintaining each said bitmap current in response to said
interacting means.
9. The graphics terminal according to claim 8 further comprising
means for creating a separate partial bitmap for each obscured
portion of all of said layers except the top layer, and
means for maintaining an obscured bitmap list of all such partial
bitmaps for each said layer.
10. The graphics terminal according to claim 9 wherein each said
obscured bitmap list includes a specification of the size and position
of the associated one of said layers.
11. The graphics terminal according to claim 7 where said means for
creating, executing and displaying the output of independent computer
programs includes a digital computer remote from said graphics terminal,
and
means for communicating between said graphics terminal and said
remote digital computer.
12. The method of supporting a plurality of virtual computer
graphic terminals on a single physical terminal including a display
screen comprising the steps of
identifying a plurality of overlapping working areas on said screen,
associating each said working area with an independent computer
program,
selectively communicating data to each said program through its
associated working area, and
continually displaying the output from each said computer program on
its associated working area.
13. The method according to claim 12 further comprising the step of
maintaining full bitmaps of each of said working areas, including
both visible portions and portions obscured by others of said
working areas, and
utilizing said obscured area bitmaps to record corresponding
portions of the output of said associated programs.
14. The method according to claim 13 further including the step of
maintaining a list of all of the obscured area bitmaps associated
with each of said working areas.
15. The method according to claim 14 further including the step of
selectively bringing any one of said working areas to full
visibility by assembling said obscured area bitmaps.
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