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You can FAKE asynchrony with a synchronous system (using threading and such), but you can't really be asynchronous. If the hardware only processes one step at a time, you can't make it process two steps at once!
The parent seems to have been discussing (a)synchronous messaging, whereas you seem to be discussing (a)synchronous computation.