Re: reentrant

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From: John Hascall
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 19:06

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firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
}lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:

}>The OS world is moving towards multithreading...

}It is with some trepidation that I amend one of Don Lindsay's comments,
}but in my experience it is only the C/Unix world that is moving towards
}multithreading.  The rest of the world has been there for a very long time.

Perhaps the research world has been...
But as far as (popular) commercially available OSes, it would seem not:

  MS-DOS:  not a chance
     VMS:  nope
     MVS:  sort of, but horrid
      VM:  I dunno, and I hope never to find out ;-)
    OS/2:  ditto
    UNIX:  not yet
   OSF/1:  yes, but not much of a commercial success at this point

John
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