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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Synchronous sounds using the Sound Manager
Message-ID: <1990Jun6.061902.15147@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 90 06:19:02 GMT
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> 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?

  Synchronous means everything happens in a predictable, organized
manner. If something is asynch, you don't know what will happen when. 
When you call a routine asynchronously, you don't know when it will finish. 
That is, the routine you call and your program aren't synchronized. (Thus
the use of completion routines and status variables.) 

Hope this helps
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