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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Threads in Unix?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.162213.2392@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:22:13 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.112723.6184@grail.com>
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- In article <1992Jul29.112723.6184@grail.com> dpc@grail.com (David P. Cutter) writes:
-
- > Actually, SunOS introduced something called Light Weight Processing
- > - LWP (a.k.a. threads) - in SunOS 4.0.1. System V.4.1.2 and SunOS 5.x
- > also has (will have) a threads package for multiprocessor and
- > uniprocessor programming.
-
- Lightweight processing (multithreading) has been discussed in CIS
- journals for quite some time now as an experimental idea. SunOS was
- the first Unix system to incorporate them.
-
- OS/2 was the first system to be designed with threads as a key
- component in the multitaskter.
-
- Today, many Unix boxes are using threads. Mach being one of the most
- prominent, using a multithreaded micro-kernel at its core.
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