Yes we've learned a lot in the last 25 years, and it certainly isn't a good idea, in retrospect, to have the C++ API for your GUI Frame object to extend the thr

Yes we've learned a lot in the last 25 years, and it certainly isn't a good idea, in retrospect, to have the C++ API for your GUI Frame object to extend the thread class. That said, in the days of single core, single event loop on all the major GUI frameworks (X11, Win32, Mac OS), it was absolutely a revelation about what was possible. The dovetails nicely with an earlier article about how quickly the pace of performance improvements felt magical in the early 90s, from the release of the 80386 to about 2010.