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- From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
- Subject: Re: MAC vs IBM-the CPUs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.051420.8584@alphalpha.com>
- Organization: Alfalfa Software, Inc.
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- References: <1992Jul18.183230.26678@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 05:14:20 GMT
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- skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok) writes:
- : In article <147l49INNnqj@agate.berkeley.edu> daver@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu (David Ray) writes:
- : [ some sensible comments deleted]
- : >
- : > - IBM has better number-crunching (better RAM cache capability)
- : > - Mac OS blows away IBM OS with general multitasking, desktop operations
- : > - Both systems fail to give UNIX-like multithreading
- : Huh? - Which UN*X out there offers multithreading? Since I looked at
- : comp.os.unix and the like last, the smallest unit a UN*X kernel could
- : handle was a process - and that's an entirely different beasty.
-
- Domain/OS and Solaris do. It's certainly not common though. There
- is now a Posix specification for threads however, so it will become
- more common. None of them have a multi-threaded operating system
- though. The only commercial OS I know of with that (unless Mach
- multi-threads in the kernel) is NT.
- --
- nazgul@alfalfa.com
-
- I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
- responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
- everyone else's.
-