It's only messy if you make a messy job of it.

-rob


On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 8:36 AM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:

> Lawrence Stewart writes:
> > I’ve always thought select(2) was a pretty good thing.  In 1995 at Open
> > Market we had a single-process web server that had no difficulties
> > running 1000 to 1200 connections.  I think that was BSD, and later OSF-1.
>
> So select was a great thing until interactive graphics came along.  Just
> got too messy.  I recall writing assembly language code to support threads
> in the mid to late 1980s, and I remember reading some papers from Sun about
> the same.  Everybody was doing it.  Anybody have enough of the history to
> paint a picture of how we got from there to standardized threads?
>
> Jon
>