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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft, OS/2, and UNIX
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Date: 20 Apr 89 11:55:19 GMT
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In article <45900221@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
}I have not used OS/2. I don't intend to. I agree that it looks to be,
}in its present incarnation, at best a niche product.
}
}Multithreaded programs - better than the way you have to do it in Unix.

Depends on what Unix you're running.  Mach (a 4.3 BSD derivative developed
here at CMU, and apparently the de facto 5.0 BSD) supports threads ("light-
weight processes").

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