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From: modcomp!nigel@uunet.UU.NET (Nigel Gamble)
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Subject: Re: THREADS, Light weight processes
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Date: 31 Oct 88 02:41:55 GMT
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in article <5279@saturn.ucsc.edu>, rutgers!mist.math.uoregon.edu!renga@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Renganathan Sundararajan) says:
>     Are there any machines out there that provide some kind of hardware
>     support to LWP switching?

The INMOS transputer is a microprocessor which supports creation and
scheduling of processes in hardware.  See Byte, November 1988.

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Nigel Gamble            "Everything should be made as simple as possible,
MODCOMP/AEG              but not simpler."  Albert Einstein.
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