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From: tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Adam Goldberg)
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Subject: Re: Multi-Threaded C
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.011816.15419@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 01:18:16 GMT
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In article <1991Apr2.212636.14024@netcom.COM>, resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick) writes:
>
>There seems to have been a bit of discussion about multi-threaded C.
>Having written some code for this as an experiment, I find I have no 
>real need for it :) (But give me a preemptive scheduler and I am happy =])
>
>If anyone is interested, here it is. This seems to work both with Turbo C,
>and MSC 6.0 (under OS/2). The OS/2 part seems utterly useless, but what
>the heck ....
>Have fun :) 
>

The April issue of Dr. Dobb's has an article regarding run-until-block
multitasking using C, including source code and an explaination thereof.

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