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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: MicroSoft to purchase Aonix?
Date: 1997/05/29
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Mike D Bates writes:

"Anyone have any good __evidence__ that counters these arguments?  (And
 yes, I've been to www.adahome.com, but a lot of the info on commercial
 use of Ada appears to be pretty old.)"


Multitasking would seem to be a _big_ plus in your favour. From what i've
heard* I wouldn't want to try to program a threaded programming using the
wierd and wonderful NT (dreaded) threaded model.

Dale

[* David Butenhof, one of the POSIX threads people, seems to think there
are things wrong with some of the NT thread decisions]