Moving open files

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/7/8 Kim Goldenberg <kgoldenberg at oit.state.nj.us>:
>> There is no secretary. The user is the only one using his computer.
>> Adding a different Alice or Bob for each program in these analogies
>> will not make things any different. _I_ understand how things work.
>> The non-CS user does not. So far as he is concerned, he is the only
>> one in the office.
>>
> But he is not; he has let a computer into his office. It only does what he
> tells it, but it is very simple-minded in that. He tried to get it to do two
> things at once and it both succeeded and failed. Some of that was aided and
> abetted by himself for not knowing the consequences of his instructions.
>

The computer _is_ the office in this case. And he is the only one using it.

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Dotan Cohen

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