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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: reentrant
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:06:39 GMT
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- firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
- }lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
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- }>The OS world is moving towards multithreading...
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- }It is with some trepidation that I amend one of Don Lindsay's comments,
- }but in my experience it is only the C/Unix world that is moving towards
- }multithreading. The rest of the world has been there for a very long time.
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- Perhaps the research world has been...
- But as far as (popular) commercially available OSes, it would seem not:
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- MS-DOS: not a chance
- VMS: nope
- MVS: sort of, but horrid
- VM: I dunno, and I hope never to find out ;-)
- OS/2: ditto
- UNIX: not yet
- OSF/1: yes, but not much of a commercial success at this point
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- John
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