Re: Are LinuxThreads real kernel-level threads?
From: Richard Steiner (rsteiner_at_visi.com)
Date: 01/06/04
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Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 01:44:24 -0600
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Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@sympatico.ca> spake unto us, saying:
>Dan Espen wrote:
>
>> So I'd say threads go back a bit farther than MS or VMS.
>
>I agree. I worked with multitasking (old terminology for "multithreaded")
>apps under DOS/VS and later under MVS. I /still/ work with multitasking
>apps even now under Z/OS.
Multithreaded apps were called "multiactivity" apps in the UNIVAC 1100
world I come from (now the Unisys Clearpath IX world running OS2200).
>Next thing you know, they will reinvent transaction processing (a la CICS
>and IMS). Oops, ... they /did/, but they call it "web services" now. ;-)
Unlike web services, though, mainframe-based transaction processing is
actually efficient and reliable. :-)
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