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From: fouts@lemming. (Marty Fouts)
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Subject: Earliest use of Threads (was Re: THREADS, Light weight processes)
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I offer, only half humorously, TSO running under OS/360, as the first
example of "multiple THREADS of control executing within a single
address space"

Consider that TSO ran as a partition and invoked its own round robin
scheduler to schedule its quantum among its various terminal users,
all of which were (sort of) within the same address space.  If TSO
doesn't qualify, IBM implementations of APL workspaces might. . .

Only halfjesting. . .

Marty
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