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Date:      Mon, 18 Aug 1997 01:03:07 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@sunyit.edu>
To:        Charles Ebert <kd5ob@theshop.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The low priority items
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970818005946.9251A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <33F78D7E.2610@theshop.net>

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I'm just about totalyly sure that freebsd supports two kinds of threads,
native and "pthreads" (which i think are posix threads) i could be wrong.

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On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Charles Ebert wrote:

> I'm a little slow.  Did I read correctly that Threaded processes are
> not supported?  And the next line down from that mentioned something
> of the same, however, can I assume it is to deal with multiprocessor
> CPU boards as well?
> 
> I can understand the rush to invent new drives and support three
> channel scsi cards and all that.  
> 
> I was always told of UNIX's unique ability to run multiple processor
> systems.  I never imagined that this system would have a problem with
> threading.  I was hoping that the multiple processor issue would
> have a higher priority than it does.  
> 
> I'm a commercial windows programmer.  I also work on OS2.
> Seems like this environment is similar to OS2 in the aspect that
> OS2 for the most part relys on one processor.  Yet OS2 has support
> for threading 5,000 some odd tasks and do it with 255 seperate
> sessions.  
> 
> >From what I've read this Free BSD seems to support multiple sessions.
> Yet I also read something about DLL's being supported, but I guess
> you can't thread anything.  
> 
> As the system piles up, wouldn't it be more and more difficult to
> achieve these goals?  I'm very tempted to help but the only working
> PC I have right now is this toshiba portable.  
> 
> Perhaps I will get into this next year as I plan on building another
> machine.  You have caught my eye with all this.  
> 
> I just love messes.  Love resolving them, working on them.
> You can only play so many card games you know.
> 
> -- 
> Charlie
> 




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