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Clipboard Support" starting on page 532 as well as Chapter
27 for more on that topic.
Synchronism
You may never have given much thought to synchronism~
the processing of several chores at once. Synchronism didn't
exist on the early personal computers, and even today it is
fairly rare. Multiprocessing, multitasking, and multithread-
ing are all aspects of synchronism: They allow several things
to go on at the same time. When a computer has more than
one processor and has network connections and peripherals
that have their own processors, it makes little sense to hold
everything hostage to a model that handles