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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] vfork and paging
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Date: Wed,  3 Oct 2001 08:23:28 -0600
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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