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

[Hans Reiser]

John Poltorak wrote:

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

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>Does anyone ever use it outside academic circles?
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No.

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>Were there versions of Mach without threads?
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Before Tevanian got to improving it, yes.

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>OS/2 has had them from the very begining, and the OS is still in 
>widespread use throughout the world.
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It copied Mach.  That was wise, not innovative.

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>>Hans
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