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Re: An idea for pthreads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott C. Gray)
Thu Oct 26 08:02:30 1995
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 07:19:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Scott C. Gray" <gray@omni.voicenet.com>
To: Antony Courtney <antony@apocalypse.org>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, pthreads@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199510251631.RAA17187@eilis.apocalypse.org>
On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Antony Courtney wrote:
> In message <9510252348.AA13623@bill-the-cat.MIT.EDU>you write:
> ...And I'd be willing to bet that most of that market segment (myself
> included) don't have (and never plan to have) multiprocessors running their
> free (or nearly free) OS.
Sorry...couldn't resist. As of Linux 1.3.30 (I think), there is now SMP
support in the kernel (and thus the beginnings of kernel threading). And,
I saw a dual processor AST 90Mhz Pentium, with one processor installed,
for $2200. Coool. :)
-scott
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