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- Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
- Date: Tuesday, 28 Jul 1992 11:41:19 MES
- From: U.Kuehn <ZX0011@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Message-ID: <92210.114119ZX0011@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: The new Multi-TOS ....
- References: <l6ch4lINNjbp@aludra.usc.edu> <1992Jul24.191131.9046@cs.ruu.nl>
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- In article <1992Jul24.191131.9046@cs.ruu.nl>, piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- says:
- >
- >Does anybody know if MultiTOS supports Threads (Lightweight Processes)?
- >--
- Since the MultiTOS will be based on MiNT, there will probably be a support
- for threads, that means processes running on the same text segment.
- But the problem with this is that you have to program really reentrant:
- you mustnt use global variables, so most libraries have to be modified,
- i.e. the malloc() function.
-
- Ulrich
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