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Date: Tue,  9 May 2000 08:18:21 +0000
From: Ishwar Rattan rattan@cps.cmich.edu
Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 future (Was: Re: Are the Infernospaces gone?)
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Russ Cox wrote:

>   >only 3 substantial programmes written in Alef - acme, rio and the IP stack. The
>   >IP stack found its way back into the kernel and the other two were converted to
>   >use a new thread library.
>
>   Does this mean Plan 9 peoples abandoned concurrent programming, and
>   joined to the ordinal threading scheme?  I'd like to know the reason...
>
> Concurrent programming is alive as ever,
> but is accomplished via a thread library for
> C that provides most of Alef's functionality
> (procs, tasks, buffered and unbuffered channels).
>
> The benefits are that there need not be
> two copies of each library now, and the programs
> are more easily portable to other architectures
> (there was no Alef compiler for the 68000, for
> instance) as well as other operating systems
> (the thread library has been ported to Linux).

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Where can I find this port?

- ishwar