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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 13:20:25 -0500
From: David McKee <david DOT mckee AT rtp DOT gtegsc DOT com>
Organization: GTE (My views are my own)
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CC: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
Subject: Re: Multithreading and Emacs?
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
<snip>
> Anyways, adding multitasking and -threading to CWSDPMI, or maybe making an
> additional thing you run with CWSDPMI to do it (a task manager?) would be
> a VERY GOOD THING. :)
> 
> If I knew how I'd do it myself. :)
> 
> Then, DJGPP could be released with the fork() command actually WORKING. :)

As for the for() command, you are right.  As for multi-tasking
(non-preemptive)
there are a pletora of thread libraries (I have three, Posix-like
nutexes, 
Mix Power C's Multi-C, and some other Gnuish thread package...

But I agree, a true tasking system would be nice, maybe with
Novell Dos 7?...

-- David T. McKee: 
-- Think: Innovative Science Learning Systems
--                 Physics, Electrical Science, Computer
--                 Science, Natural Science, Theology
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