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From: kgorlen@sparkler.dcrt.nih.gov (Keith Gorlen)
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Subject: Re: Task Library
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Date: 1 Jun 90 20:28:45 GMT
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In article <1990Jun1.141739.15559@cec1.wustl.edu>, jdd@wucs1.wustl.edu
(John DeHart) writes:
|>
|> 
|>We are looking at using the AT&T C++ Task Library for some
|>development we are doing. We are working on Sparc stations.
|>Any experience out there with the Task Library on Sparc stations?
|>Did you do the port yourself or use an unsupported version
|>from AT&T?
|>We are concerned with how robust the library is, especially
|>since it is unsupported.
|>
|>What other Task Libraries are people using?
|>
|>
|>John DeHart
|>jdd@wucs1.wustl.edu
|>Washington University St. Louis, Mo.
                
The NIH Class Library's Process classes provide multiprocessing with
coroutines, but more along the lines of Smalltalk-80.  In Release 3.0 of
the class library, available via anonymous ftp from alw.nih.gov in the
file pub/nihcl.tar.Z, there is a port for the SPARC.

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