From: "Lark" <rlark DOT at DOT mbhs DOT dot DOT edu AT delorie DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Multi tasking?
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:27:00 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...
>
>On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Lark wrote:
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>> How would I go about accomplishing multitasking?
>
>Please explain more what exactly do you mean by that.  One
>interpretation is that several programs run at the same time sharing
>the machine resources; another interpretation is that you have several
>threads of execution in the same program.


This is more of what I had in mind, the multiple threads in the same
program.  Surely it can't be impossible.  How would people make games where
spaceships explode at the same time that other ones are still shooting, etc?
Thanks for the feedback.