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#3.1 worth it?

    20-Aug-94 06:42:52
Sb: #159670-#3.1 worth it?
Fm: E.R. Bujtas 72617,3521
To: Nathan 73754,717
I hate, no I love to say this, but the Amiga OS has always allowed multiple tasks per process. Only they are called Tasks, not Threads. They are actually the same thing-They both use the same memory space of the parent and they both create their own stack. The only difference is that OS/2 calls them Threads while Amiga calls them Tasks. It is interesting how close they operate, even in their invocation: DosCreateThread in OS/2 vs CreateTask in Amiga OS. But the term Task came first, that is why such systems are called MultiTasking and not MultiThreading. ..Andy from Harding, NJ The more complicated they make the plumbing, the easier it is to stop-up the drain. ….Scotty