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- From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
- Subject: Re: reentrant
- In-Reply-To: john@iastate.edu's message of 2 Jan 93 19:06:39 GMT
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- <1993Jan2.122544.26198@sei.cmu.edu> <C08qF4.Knz@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:50:14 GMT
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- In article <C08qF4.Knz@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
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- | Perhaps the research world has been...
- | But as far as (popular) commercially available OSes, it would seem not:
- |
- | 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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- Data General's propitary operating systems (R[TD]OS, AOS{,/VS,/VS-II}
- have had threads (called tasks) since the 70's (early 70's I think).
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- Many of the multiprocessor UNIX versions have had threads in one form
- or another, and certainly the MPP systems.
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- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861
- Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142
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- You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.
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