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> Respond! is a control panel that brings a limited form of
> preemptive multitasking to the Macintosh right now. No more waiting
> for MacOS X or Rhapsody. Even in Mac OS 8, if you hold down a menu
> in the Finder, processes will not continue in the background. With
> Respond!, you can be holding down a menu (particularly useful with
> Sticky Menus in Mac OS 8), or clicking in a the zoom or close boxes
> (or the WindowShade collapse box in Mac OS 8), or dragging a window
> or the thumb of a scroll bar, and processes will continue in the
> background.
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