InfoWorld wonders if the advent of multitasking will lead to people surreptitiously playing videogames at work:

"We play games, but not during business hours", a friend working for a software company told me recently. Of course I don't believe that completely. I can't imagine grappling with visi-whatever all day without taking time to search for some Klingons during a coffee break. But the office worker has to be careful. Games are noisy, and the graphics are quite obvious—if a supervisor approaches, it's pretty difficult to disguise what you're doing.

That could change, however. Soon, it will be as simple to secretly play a game on a business computer as it is to hide a comic book inside a history text right under a teacher's nose.

A typical scenario might be something like this: you'll be firing away at space invaders, spot your supervisor approaching and press a key; the screen will change at 9600 baud—no need to change disks, reboot or reset. Digital Research, the maker of Concurrent CP/M, a new operating system, promises that with the right code, the system will allow the computer to accomplish several tasks simultaneously.