That the programs, instead of being turned off -- when you quit the program, you'd keep running and, basically, all the sorts of things like Windows is doing, running as a multi-cellular organism on many machines, he envisioned all that happening.
当你退出这些程序的时候，它们并不会停止， 它们一直在运行 有点类似于Windows 在多台机器上运行多细胞生物体 他设想了所有这些。