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From: edwards@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards)
Subject: Re: c++, smalltalk, and real-time
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Organization: IntraNet, Inc.
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:05:04 GMT
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In article <3n3usm$j0e@news1.delphi.com>,
Jeff Sutherland <jsutherland@BIX.com> wrote:
>>"Internal" threads have nothing to do with REAL multithreading, which would
>>allow you to exploit multiple processors and have true concurrency.
>>Sometimes these are called "kernel threads".
>
>The definitive answer from Easel has been posted previously.  The next
>release of ENFIN for Windows 95/NT supports native operating system
>threads.  We are using Microsoft's OLE/COM environment and are limited only
>by Microsoft's implementation of the operating system.

"Supports" can have a lot of meanings.
I am sure that what you mean to say is that you can INTERFACE to real
threads running in other languages. That is a far different thing than having
actual Smalltalk code running in multiple threads in PARALLEL on an SMP box.
There are enormous problems to pulling that off in a VM-based language.
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