Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!pyramid!leadsv!laic!nova!darin From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Unix bigotry Keywords: AOS AOS/VS ACL threads tasks processes Message-ID: <440@laic.UUCP> Date: 7 Feb 89 18:14:57 GMT References: <1135@raspail.UUCP> <476@cvbnet2.UUCP> <653@unocss.UUCP> <117@spectra.COM> Sender: news@laic.UUCP Reply-To: darin@nova.UUCP (Darin Johnson) Organization: Lockheed AI Center, Menlo Park Lines: 12 In article <117@spectra.COM> pace@spectra.COM (William B. Pace) writes: >In article <653@unocss.UUCP>, mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis) writes: > >On another front, I was at USENIX this past week and heard some fascinating >papers on the addition of threads (aka lightweight processes) to Unix. I'm >fascinated because RDOS had this way back in 1968! This reminds me of someone I talked to a few weeks back, who commented "Isn't it nice that Sun went and invented shared libraries?" Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com) Can you "Spot the Looney"?