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From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] non-blocking IO - threads
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 10:57:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <332ca1eb-f862-b028-a2a2-e168399576a1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VTtd8K74j66EMpaJKb93KYuWiO9m=o7qVa3v0VTdSF+CA@mail.gmail.com>



On 6/3/2020 9:42 AM, Paul Winalski wrote:
> The problem is that VMS at the time
> didn't have a threads package.  I had to roll my own threads by using
> the asynchronous system traps (ASTs) delivered by completion of I/O to
> the pseudo-terminals.  Talk about messy....

That's also how the Sybase SQL Server worked on VMS at the same time.

Jon

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-03 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-02 14:19 [TUHS] non-blocking IO Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-02 17:45 ` Paul Winalski
2020-06-02 17:59   ` arnold
2020-06-02 18:53     ` Paul Winalski
2020-06-02 19:18       ` Clem Cole
2020-06-02 21:15         ` Lawrence Stewart
2020-06-02 22:03           ` [TUHS] non-blocking IO - threads Jon Steinhart
2020-06-02 23:05             ` Rob Pike
2020-06-02 23:09               ` Rob Pike
2020-06-02 23:21                 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-03  0:39                   ` Rob Pike
2020-06-02 23:12               ` Jon Steinhart
2020-06-03 16:42                 ` Paul Winalski
2020-06-03 17:57                   ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2020-06-03  5:38           ` [TUHS] Unix on the Arpanet Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-03 12:23             ` Lawrence Stewart
2020-06-02 18:23   ` [TUHS] non-blocking IO Dan Cross
2020-06-02 18:56     ` Paul Winalski
2020-06-02 19:23       ` Clem Cole

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