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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@noos.fr>
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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.


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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