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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: NetBSD/FreeBSD (pthreads)
To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 13:36:52 -0700 (MST)
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> While I find the MIT pthreads implementation quite clever,
> what I'm really looking for is pthreads within kernel space...

To clarify matters:

Apparently, there is now a HotJava port in alpha on Solaris/Linux/NetBSD
that uses user space threads (pthreads).

No, I don't know the release schedule.

I still favor a kernel implementation as well.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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