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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: threads
Message-ID: <5153@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 15 Feb 90 05:23:47 GMT
References: <25D99900.51AD@tct.uucp>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <25D99900.51AD@tct.uucp> jim@tct.uucp (Jim Kunzman) writes:
> My question is "Does AmigaDos support multiple threads within
> a process like (or unlike) OS/2?"

My answer is "mu".

Or more exactly, AmigaOS tasks are already low overhead execution units
like threads.

If you want even lighter weight objects, cut your own coroutines in C. It's
fairly easy.
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