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From: jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway)
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Subject: Re: Earliest use of Threads (was Re: THREADS, Light weight processes)
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Data General has had multiple tasks (threads) running around in the same
address space at least since the mid 70's.  I think such existed in the
early versions of RDOS (just forground and background processes) as well
and that would be in the early 70's.

apple!jrg	John R. Galloway, Jr.       contract programmer, San Jose, Ca

These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!