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Re: DCE 2.1 for OS/2...use it for Java port?



On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Guy McIlroy wrote:

> >If you know of a public equivalent of POSIX pthreads + libraries, let
> >me know. :)  I just suggested going for DCE because it is under
> >beta now, is low cost if you get accepted to the beta program,
> >and it exists now.
> 
> if a public equivilent dosn't exist, maybe we should make one....

Our plate is full as it is! ;)  Seriously, IBM has been working on a DCE
port/equivilent with a rather large team for the better part of three years.

> java threads do appear to be akin to pthreads, but a cursory look indicated
> to me that it is simply a matter of mapping one to the other....??

> maybe this is an over-simplification.... i 'spose i better actually go look
> at the source... :-)

Not to over-simplify either, but threads are threads are threads -- very
little difference from one OS to another in my experience.  These should
present a problem to us.

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