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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: LWP, anyone?
To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner)
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> I've been using  the MIT pthreads package on linux and am
> quite impressed.
> 
> This seems to be the direction to go in...
> 

This is not a pthreads competitor.

This is an API compatability issue for many, many SunOS 4.x (x>1)
applications.

If a SPARC port ever takes place, then this will be an ABI issue as well.
			        Notice: "B", not "P" ---^


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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