From: Marty Kent
Subject: "Asynchronous" processing in Allegro Common Lisp?
Date: Thu, 19 May 1988 12:47:31 +0000
Message-ID: <24159@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>

   Are there any functions in Allegro that are subject to return before all
their work has actually been completed? For instance, I can imagine the
possibility that a function might queue something to be handled in a
Mac operating system queue, and then return immediately afterward, without
any guarantee that the os had already handled that processing.  

   I'm curious about whether it's possible for (window-close) to return while
the image of the window is still visible on the screen. Does anyone *know*?

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