[Am-info] O/S 2 support - slightly off topic (my apologies)

[John Poltorak]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:16:22PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:45:27PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> >
> >>>What about threads? They were in place from day one - about 15 years ago.
> >>>
> >>Threads were not an MS invention.
> >>
> >
> >Just to clarify... we are talking about OS/2 rather than Windows aren't 
> >we?...
> >
> >OS/2 was the first mainstream OS which included threading in the kernel.
> >
> >
> Andy Tevanian was the inventor, and he added them to Mach while at CMU.

Are you suggesting that Mach is a mainstream OS?

Does anyone ever use it outside academic circles?

Were there versions of Mach without threads?

OS/2 has had them from the very begining, and the OS is still in 
widespread use throughout the world.
 
> Hans
> 

-- 
John