In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hans Jørgen Jakobsen wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:38:09 GMT, Danny Mayer wrote: > > > >>No need to look. I haven't had the bandwidth to get much done in the > >>last few months. Needless to say it will be much easier to implement on > >>Windows than on Unix machines as Windows uses threads so there's no > >>issue with the transfer of information between processes. > > > > > > Why are threads not used on UNIX? > > /hjj > > I've never used them but I believe that Solaris supports threads. True. IRIX (SGI) and AIX (IBM) also support threaded applications. The Solaris kernel is also itself threaded. I think this is true of IRIX and AIX. The HP-UX kernel is not threaded, although threaded applications are supported. These are the OSs I know something of. Joe Gwinn
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