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

[Eric M. Hopper]

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On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 10:20, Mitch Stone wrote:
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> On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 11:16 AM, Hans Reiser wrote:
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> > Andy Tevanian was the inventor, and he added them to Mach while at CMU.
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> You mean Avie Tevanian, I presume?

Not to get too off-topic, but one of the biggest technical problems I
see in Windows is its heavy reliance on threads.  In my experience using
threads extensively leads to low quality programs that crash or hang
constantly for inexplicable reasons.  Having to carefully coordinate
access to internal program data structures among multiple
non-deterministic control flows is very prone to error.

I, personally, advocate almost any solution before threads are brought
in.  They should be last resort for solving a problem.  So, I have
little love or respect for an OS based on its built in multi-threading
support.  :-)

Have fun (if at all possible),
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-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.org=20
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