Meanwhile I was clamoring to find a copy of DesqView as fast as I could, because my favorite MOD player had a DOS shell, but you had to exit your shelled-out pr

Meanwhile I was clamoring to find a copy of DesqView as fast as I could, because my favorite MOD player had a DOS shell, but you had to exit your shelled-out program to return to the player and pick another song. That was acceptable for a quick dial-up-and-toss-a-mail-packet session, but not for door games or chat, so the prospect of being able to run something in an _alternate_ task, not a _parent_ task, was incredibly attractive.