[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Questions about multitasking

pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) (05/15/91)

In article <13485@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>[how to yield time to other apps...]

>I've used this technique to port the PBMPLUS image processing package to
>MPW, and get it to run well in the background.  In that environment, you can
>even use shell variables to control how often the program yields the CPU.
>Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

Say Larry, we wouldn't be seeing PBMPlus in comp.binaries.mac any time
soon, would we?  I've heard neat things about the package, and seeing it
on the Mac would be quite cool :-)
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