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From: tart@reed.UUCP (Stephanie Shelton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT & "threads"
Message-ID: <10736@reed.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 23:03:43 GMT
References: <592245952.ralphw@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU> <9772@bigtex.cactus.org>
Reply-To: tart@reed.UUCP (Stephanie Shelton)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <9772@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:

>> From: "Maria J. Jones" <mj11+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>> Rashid says Mach's unique features include the ability to execute
>> multiple activities or "threads" within a single program.

>I feel obligated to point out that Microsoft's OS/2 does this too.
>Their symbolic debugger, CodeView, also provides source-level
>capability for debugging threads.

And then of course there's Concurrent C.  Unix has had the ability to do this
for a while.  It's all a question of how you most effectively program it.

-me


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