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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: Win32 CreateThread() vs Unix fork()
Date: 14 Dec 1995 05:18:05 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Marcus Meissner) wrote:
[ ... SMP scalability ... ]

] 100% scaleable? Wasn't that mentioned under 'impossible' in
] the OS concepts lectures I've heard?

I heard you could get it using immutexes (a type of
asynchronization primitive).

8-) 8-).


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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