RE: Multithreaded Programming

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is probably some confusion regarding the word "thread."  It is common
practise to refer to running more than one job at a time as being
"multithreaded."  One standard implementation of this is a job queue with
MAXACT(2).

The modern usage of the word "thread" goes hand in hand with the C spawn()
function and Java.  Unix people are familiar with the concept <g>.  OS/400
and RPG are becoming more threadsafe with each new release.  We'll get full
Unix thread capability Real Soon Now.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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