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- From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
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- Subject: Re: reentrant
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 10:03:04 GMT
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- In article <C08qF4.Knz@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
- >firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
- >Perhaps the research world has been... <moving toward multithreading>
- >But as far as (popular) commercially available OSes, it would seem not:
- >
- > VM: I dunno, and I hope never to find out ;-)
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- Yes, as of VM/ESA Release 2 (1992). Applications can use multiple threads
- within a single address space (and threads can run on multiple processors.)
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- > OS/2: ditto
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- Yes, always has been since 1987.
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