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by frou_dh 973 days ago
Because the point of huge monitors in the WIMP paradigm is to display multiple windows simultaneously.
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I assume you're not referring to Weakly Interacting Massive Particles as a theory of dark matter - what does WIMP mean here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)

The design developed at Xerox Parc.

^multitasking

"We suffered for years waiting to get true multitasking and this newb doesn't even use it!" ;-)