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From: rfg@monkeys.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 30 Jan 1996 19:32:49 -0800
Organization: Infinite Monkeys & Co.
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In article <4dgrjm$rnv@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>For one thing, if you use the idiotic SVR4 model, you must
>preallocate the stack at thread creation time.

Excuse me, but isn't this required by POSIX?

If so, then why blame it on SVR4?
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