From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>
Subject: Re: question about tasks, multithreading and multi-cpu machines
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:15:39 GMT
Date: 2006-03-15T01:15:39+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <%UJRf.27030$oL.17456@attbi_s71> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <biuje3-olg.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com>
Jeffrey Creem wrote:
>
> Others answered the real question but I'll comment on this. Actually,
> threads is misleading since threads are just tasks minus rendevous. It
> all just depends on your perspective. Since Ada had tasking before
> (most) unix had threads I think Unix got the name wrong :)
At the Ada Launch (1980 Dec 10), when Ichbiah, Barnes, and Firth presented their
new language, one of them said that they tended to prefer shorter words for
reserved words, and task is shorter than thread or process. Of course, that
doesn't explain why they picked package instead of module.
--
Jeff Carter
"My brain hurts!"
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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2006-03-14 16:26 question about tasks, multithreading and multi-cpu machines Norbert Caspari
2006-03-14 16:51 ` Pascal Obry
2006-03-16 4:27 ` Norbert Caspari
2006-03-16 10:04 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-03-14 17:18 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-03-16 4:22 ` Norbert Caspari
2006-03-16 6:58 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-03-14 18:49 ` Martin Krischik
2006-03-14 18:56 ` tmoran
2006-03-14 23:01 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-03-15 1:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-03-16 8:06 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-16 10:23 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2006-03-16 12:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-16 15:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-03-16 15:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-16 18:03 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-03-16 20:06 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-03-17 3:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-03-16 20:06 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-17 8:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-17 11:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-17 14:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-17 19:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-17 19:42 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-18 0:27 ` tmoran
2006-03-25 21:28 ` Robert A Duff
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2006-03-26 0:44 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-15 6:46 ` Simon Wright
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