Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!ALFA.berkeley.edu!bks From: bks@ALFA.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Threads? in UNIX? Message-ID: <11894@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 10 Jul 88 20:11:03 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: bks@ALFA.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 G.Michael Vose, in an article "Threading the OS/2 Needle," in "Computer Language," July, 1988, p.34, writes: "... Threads used as the underlying concept for multitasking are beginning to have a major impact on operating system design. Not only are they the basis for OS/2, but the rewrite of UNIX currently underway as a joint Sun/AT&T project also incorporates the use of threads to make that version of UNIX more competitive with OS/2. ... " Can anyone confirm or expand? --Brad Sherman