For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O.

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During the boom period of the early 1890s, he converted his pineapple cannery into a coffee mill.

The strategy of poikilohydry was almost certainly primitive and evolved from the production of desiccation-tolerant spores (Oliver et al. 2000). Organisms employing poikilohydry are confined to a small overall size, in particular because of the limitations to water transport that relies on capillarity (Proctor and Tuba 2002).