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john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
>}>The OS world is moving towards multithreading...
>But as far as (popular) commercially available OSes, it would seem not:
     [list omitted]
>    UNIX:  not yet

One can easily multithread programs on lots of "Unix" machines:
Crays, Intel Paragon, KSR/1, Alpha, SPARCstation, Sequent, and so on.
On some of these machines, the vendor rather expects you to do this
(notably, the multiprocessor vendors). On other machines, it is
achieved by using a "threads package" that papers over some
infelicity or other.

Yes, there used to be Unixi where a thread package couldn't be done
properly - as the Ada pioneers found out. [No way to overlap
execution and I/O, for instance.] But Sun has moved towards
threading, and now there's a Posix threads-package standard, so I
felt safe in claiming a trend.

I'd ask Robert how old the idea is, but since it's certainly older
than much of the audience, I'll refrain. 
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Don		D.C.Lindsay	Carnegie Mellon Computer Science