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In article <C08qF4.Knz@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:

| 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

Data General's propitary operating systems (R[TD]OS, AOS{,/VS,/VS-II}
have had threads (called tasks) since the 70's (early 70's I think).

Many of the multiprocessor UNIX versions have had threads in one form
or another, and certainly the MPP systems.
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