[chiph]

Because of that, I got good at creating multi-threaded GUI apps. Stardock were champs at this - they had a newsgroup reader/downloader named PMINews that took full advantage of multithreading.

The rule of thumb I had heard and followed was that if something could take longer than 500ms you should get off the UI thread and do it in a separate thread. You'd disable any UI controls until it was done.

[dnh44]

I always liked Stardock; if had to use Windows I'd definitely just get all their UI mods out of the nostalgia factor.

[silon42]

Why do I remember it was 50ms?

[chiph]

You're probably right. It was long long ago... I keep meaning to look at ArcaOS but I never seem to have the hardware to dedicate to it at the same time my interest returns.