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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARpA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: C++ and multitasking
Message-ID: <1378@lll-crg.ARpA>
Date: Mon, 14-Apr-86 14:03:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 14 14:03:22 1986
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In article <27600047@uiucdcs> reddy@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
>
>I recall that the earlier Class-C had multitasking (or some simulation of
>it).  Has that been thrown out in C++?  Or, is there some library that
>provides it?

I an not aware of the situation for C++, but there is a stand alone
Multitasking package avaiable for C (for free).  It runs under Unix,
is compatible with dbx, and can be set to interleave the execution of
the arbitrary number of tasks every instruction if so desired.  It
currently runs on Vaxes and I believe that one group has ported it to
Sequent's B8K.  The package is written in C and is constructed to be
portable.  There are facilities that allow one to obtain the concurrency
available as a function of clock cycle, assuming one clock per instruction.