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From: haynes@WSL.DEC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Work Procs
Message-ID: <8805252248.AA23672@gilroy.dec.com>
Date: 25 May 88 22:48:21 GMT
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Work procs are a way of registering a procedure to do "idle loop" or
"background" processing. A kind of poor man's multi-processing.

They are part of the proposed "official" Xtk intrinsics spec currently
being considered by the consortium. The spec should be out "real soon now".

	-- Charles