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• My other computer is still in the shop window.
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• foreground vt. [Unix; common] To bring a task to the top of one's stack for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
  If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
• foreground: [UNIX] vt. To bring a task to the top of one's {stack} for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
  If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
• Homer: One for "Honk", please. Ticketeer: Oh. Gee, uh, just a minute.
  I have to check with the manager. [to manager] That overweight guy wants to see the movie....