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- Subject: Re: MAC vs IBM-the CPUs
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- From: ajross@husc9.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross)
- Date: 26 Jul 92 20:53:13 GMT
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- nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:
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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.
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- >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
-
- Huh? OS/2 has had threads since version 1.0 (5 years ago). For that
- matter, it is currently debatable as to whether NT is a commercial OS.
- You won't be able to buy it until next year. (For a REAL flame war on
- this, see the windows and OS/2 .advocacy groups.)
-
- Andy Ross
- ajross@husc.harvard.edu
- that's right, no .sig
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