Quote: Acme is written in Alef, a concurrent object-oriented language similar to C; worked out well

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Acme is about 8,000 lines of code in … [Winterbottom 1992, AT&T report]. Acme's structure is a set of communication processes in a … windows; other processes forward mouse and keyboard activity … [window's control files]. The language and design worked out well; as explained elsewhere … [refs] … traditional interactive systems. … [For example, Acme] creates a new dedicated process for each … state implicitly encodes the state of the I/O …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: avoid the clumsy top-level event loop via concurrent processing

Quote: Acme uses a new process for each I/O request; its state encodes the state of the I/O request and removes the need for queues

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