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

[Sujal Shah]

On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 13:28, John Poltorak wrote:
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> > 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?

You guys can argue who came first all you want... but mach is at the
heart of Mac OS X which is derived from NeXTStep/NeXTOS whatever it was
called there. It also has been used in a couple of other places, but I'm
too busy to look it up right now.

Sujal

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