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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT & "threads"
Message-ID: <10448@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 88 02:56:00 GMT
References: <592245952.ralphw@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU> <9772@bigtex.cactus.org> <10736@reed.UUCP> <683@muffin.cme-durer.ARPA>
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In article <683@muffin.cme-durer.ARPA> libes@cme.nbs.gov (Don Libes) writes:
>In conversation, Rashid pointed out that if you have a multiprocessor
>architecture, MACH threads can really run in parallel (as opposed to
>time-slicing on a single CPU).  None of UNIX, OS/2, threads support this.

There's Dynix, Sequent's operating system. It a pretty decent multiprocessor
operating system. 4.3 and SysV compatable. But then again, it's not called
Unix either.

Sean

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