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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@noos.fr>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Missing ARP reply in 9load
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:25:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39760EA1.3030100@noos.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200007191913.PAA08399@smtp4.fas.harvard.edu>

Russ Cox wrote:

> 9load is single threaded
so then 3rd ed has threads?  i remember (rob?) saying that plan 9
did not have threads because it was unecessary and beyond the 
capabilities of most programmers.  or am i confused?

writing code for windows is basically thread programming.  well,
it's event driven state stuff like X and that's why it's _extremely_
difficult to write a solid windows program.  and then there's the 
environment:

     CreateProcess() has 10 args, two of them structs.


--
Boyd Roberts                            boyd@psycho-basket-case.org

     ``I come over here to kill them cocksuckers, not work for 'em''

           -- Moon Dog, _Pettibone's Law_, John Keene



  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-19 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-19 19:13 Russ Cox
2000-07-19 20:25 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2000-07-19 21:09   ` William K. Josephson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-07-19 16:10 presotto
2000-07-19 17:45 ` Lucio De Re
     [not found]   ` <200007191801.OAA08870@akbar.nevex.com>
2000-07-19 18:28     ` Lucio De Re
2000-07-19 12:09 Lucio De Re

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