Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:33:34 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: snarfy AT goodnet DOT com
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Subject: Re: New threads package available!
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On 14 Oct 1996 snarfy AT goodnet DOT com wrote:

>The lwp package is a very simple time sliced multitasking library.  It 
>allows you to execute functions 'in the backround' without having to 
>worry about multitasking.  The package supports two of the PC's timers
>so that it will still work with other librarys that also use the timer.

Josh, will the library be able to handle several TASKS (i.e. real
applications) in the future. Do you intend to extend it to work as a simple
kernel for asynchronous execution of tasks?

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