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- From: j.cook@primerd.prime.com (C. James Cook)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why would this slow down QuickDraw
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.141600@primerd.Prime.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:19:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.092809.10504@cactus.org>
- Organization: Prime Computer R&D
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- The real obvious answer is that even though VersaTerm is in the background and
- your flight simulator is in the foreground, VersaTerm is still using some CPU
- time when the flight simulator allows other applications to run. Background
- processing is how stuff prints in the print monitor background process while
- you go on an do something else simultaneously under Multi-finder or system 7.
- Since VersaTerm sounds to be a terminal simulator, I would hazard a guess that
- it is checking for incoming characters fairly frequently so nothing will get
- dropped.
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- Just a guess.
- Jim
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