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From: andrew@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Andrew Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Objectworks \ Smalltalk Release 4
Summary: How does it do processes?
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Date: 15 Mar 91 20:35:53 GMT
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As an ancient Smalltalk user (that is, the Smalltalk is ancient, not me!)
I would be very grateful if some kind Objectworks \ Smalltalk Release 4
user could answer the following questions:

How does it handle processes? Does it rely entirely upon processes of
the underlying platform, or does it define its own process and
process scheduling mechanisms? If the latter, what purpose do these
Smalltalk processes serve?

Any help would be gladly received. I shall summarise the answers (briefly,
unless requested otherwise).

Andrew.