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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Synchronous sounds using the Sound Manager
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Date: 6 Jun 90 14:38:16 GMT
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In article <31011@ut-emx.UUCP>, wras@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Mariotti)
writes:
> This seems to be the consensus, but doesn't the very definition of
> 'synchronous' imply concurrence?  Asynchronous should mean 'not simultaneous'.
> Is this Apple's way of confusing us even further?

No, it's Apple's way of using a term the same way the rest of the industry
does.  A synchronous operation is one where continued execution is
synchronized to the completion of the operation.  An asynchronous operation
is one which is performed independently of continued execution, and is
completed at a (usually indefinite) later point in time.

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Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
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