On Friday, 4 December 1998,
     MARIO SEMO wrote to IVAN TODOROSKI about the PM message queue

 MS>>> yes. we all know this since 1988. and? first IBM said they will
 MS>>> implement a workaround as the implemented OS/ 2.0, then they said
 MS>>> "no, with WARP3", and with WARP 4 they shipped a
way to kill
 MS>>> misbehaved applications.

 IT>>   And what is this way? Does it come by default, or it requires some
 IT>> fixpacks? I've never seen anything like it on my machine, could you
 IT>> explain?

 MS> isnt there the feature which marked windows with a RED border when
 MS> they misbehaved? (in the W4 beta was this marking - i think IBM
 MS> removed the red border in W4 ga).

  Hmmm.. I've never seen a red border around here, although when an
  application starts hogging the input queue, sometimes it is possible
  to take the focus away from it by clicking outside its window, and it
  becomes BORDERLESS (its border gets kinda flat grey, don't know how to
  explain it, but it is noticeable). I guess this the equivalent of that
  red border in the beta...

 MS> as i remember there should be a way to TAKE the focus from
"dead" (not
 MS> repsonding) apps.

  Sometimes, but it's very unreliable... if that's the fix you were
  talking about, of course.

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