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Ever since the first graphical user interface, there has been a need to provide users with the feeling that while the computer is crunching numbers, the UI can still respond to input. This is perfectly reasonable: how many physical devices with buttons do you have that suddenly stop responding the moment they start doing any work?
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Blewett, R., Clymer, A. (2013). Asynchronous UI. In: Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5921-3_6
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