On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, D Finnigan wrote:
That's certainly desirable. Remember that there would be only one foreground process (you know, the one taking keyboard input and writing to the screen) at a time, so the ones in the back could be completely halted, or maybe compiling code or something without your intervention.
I imagine running background tasks would be fairly painful on an unaccelerated machine... though that's no reason not to do it ;-)
I've always thought some sort of browser type UI would be nice... I've actually gone so far as planning such a project before realizing my limited Applesoft skills just aren't up to the task.
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