Flv.player.2-jontey

When his or her application was running, it was the only one taking up resources. This programming technique followed for years. When Apple and IBM came out with their respective desktop computers, not much thought was given to performing multitasking operations. Memory (now MOSFET semiconductor) had come down in price, but was still expensive to the home hobbyist. So with 64K on the original IBM PC, and DOS as the operating system, it was still prudent to run one application at a time. Again, the person who wrote the program.