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From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix
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Date: 8 Apr 90 01:04:57 GMT
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In article <4549@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut) writes:
   You're correct.  I should have said that neither AT&T nor Berkely UNIX can
   make full use of tightly coupled multi-processors without some non-standard
   extensions.  Yes, you _can_ run UNIX on such a system, but it isn't as
   efficient as an OS that has multi-threading.

Mach is a type of Unix, and it has multi-threading.

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