In
<cae1xxdeh6qkeg5pcjj3bi4crh4r86oywyhgagbwj4vcoudv...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 08/28/2013
at 11:03 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>As Chris Blaicher and Sam Siegel have suggested, PAUSE/RELEASE is
>logically complete. Anything that can be accomplished with WAIT/POST
>can be accomplished, more elegantly and with fewer barred windows and
>culs de sac, with PAUSE/RELEASE.
Such statements are invariably wrong; it turns out that the author was
invisaging specific usages. In particular, PAUSE/RELEASE does not have
the m out of n functionality that WAIT has.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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