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Subject:	Re: spawning or system for DOS game?.. help me
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Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 1999 01:42:03 GMT
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> > More information: In fact, even Windows and the programs that run in
> it
> > use this method too; the computer is still only doing one thing at a
> > time. Each process / thread gets a little bit of time CPU every once
> in
> > a while.
> really?... but how do you explain MSWord?.. they have a spell checker
> running on the background ...

When something is running 'in the background', all that means is that the
programs rapidly switch back-and-forth.  But the 'focus' remains on a single
program.  An exception of this is when a computer has multiple processors.
But on a single processor, only one thing can happen at a time (generally).

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