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asynchronous
- adjective Of an interpreter, it means that commands are
assumed to be executed simultaneously (although actually they
are interleaved by the operating system under timesharing). The
advantage of this is that commands which take a long time to
process, eg. 'wh T', don't hold up the other players. The
disadvantage is that the system of signals and waits necessary
to protect critical zones of code add complexity baggage which
makes the interpreter hard to program and robs the
definition language of much of its power. Compare synchronous.
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