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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
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Subject: Re: Earliest use of Threads (was Re: THREADS, Light weight processes)
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fouts@lemming. (Marty Fouts) writes:
>[ earliest threads in 1 address space: TSO  (half :-) ]

I suspect that the *earliest* is whatever machine had multiple
(concurrent) processes.  The single address space would be physical
addresses, there would have been no protection, ...

Does anybody know when the first multiprocessing systems came online
at research institutions?  How long before they became commercially
available?

Does this digression have anything to with comp.os.*research*?  Nope.

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