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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] vfork and paging
Date: Wed,  3 Oct 2001 08:23:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110030822530.3436-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200110031355.f93DtZp13705@borja.sarenet.es>

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Borja Marcos wrote:

> 	Curiously, very few people write concurrent programs. Multitasking operating
> systems are used as multiprogramming systems to run more than one program,
> but most of those programs are sequential.

that's cause most people can't do it well. SPMD is about as good as people
can mostly think about. Anything harder usually gets screwed up. I don't
know why.

> 	Is it a lost art? ;-)

did anybody ever find it?

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-03 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-03  9:49 forsyth
2001-10-03 10:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-03 13:55 ` Borja Marcos
2001-10-03 14:23   ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-19 21:03 David Gordon Hogan
2001-10-04 16:29 forsyth
2001-10-04 14:09 rog
2001-10-04 10:17 Richard Miller
2001-10-03 10:16 rog
2001-10-03 10:31 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-02 21:05 forsyth
2001-10-02 19:25 rob pike
2001-10-02 18:51 rog
2001-10-02 18:05 Russ Cox
2001-10-02 15:56 rob pike
2001-10-02 15:39 rog
2001-10-03  7:38 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-02 15:27 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-10-02 14:37 Sape Mullender
2001-10-02 14:31 rog
2001-10-02 14:29 presotto
2001-10-02 14:12 rog
2001-10-02 13:48 Sape Mullender
2001-10-02 13:47 rob pike
2001-10-02 13:42 Sape Mullender
2001-10-01 14:06 rob pike
2001-10-01 15:42 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-01 14:01 forsyth
2001-10-01 12:21 rob pike
2001-10-02  8:27 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-02 13:34   ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-10-01 10:45 forsyth
2001-10-01 10:59 ` Boyd Roberts

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