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>>Why would you need to? VFP is single threaded so you can only do one thing at a time anyway.
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>For the same reason you like to have many notepads open at the same time. Convenience.

Then run multiple instances of VFP, just like you do with Notepad

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>And speaking of multithreadin maybe it is high time that VFP had some real multithreading capabilities.

I don't agree. Multi-threading adds lots of headaches to the development process.