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From: jdmce@ecsvax.UUCP (Duncan McEwen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: downloading&multitasking
Keywords: Mirror/Crosstalk
Message-ID: <6822@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 13:53:02 GMT
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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I have been playing around with a Crosstalk "clone" program 
called Mirror.  The program allows for itself to be put
in the background allowing background downloading &tc.

I have noticed that when downloading the program is touchy.
For example, basic programs seems to interupt the download.
At other times foreground programs that apparently don't interfere
with the d/l, lock the computer up.

Can someone give a dissertation on the the conditions in which
background processes can be simulated on the 80286, and help
me understand why the process, at least with Mirror, seems so
fragile?