From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Tasks in Gnat3.05 for Dos?
Date: 1996/07/23
Date: 1996-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Duz0vv.L67@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31F3E4E7.13E4@bunsen.ds.boeing.com
In article <31F3E4E7.13E4@bunsen.ds.boeing.com>,
John Harbaugh <johnh@bunsen.ds.boeing.com> wrote:
>In their excellent book "Concurrency In Ada" Burns and Welling make a useful
>distinction between parallelism and concurrency:
>
>"Two processes are said to be executing in parallel if at any instant they
>are both executing... By comparison, two processes are said to be concurrent
>if they have the potential for executing in parallel."
Can you write a test program that can tell the difference?
- Bob
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-16 0:00 Tasks in Gnat3.05 for Dos? Spasmo
1996-07-16 0:00 ` John S. Harbaugh
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Spasmo
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Spasmo
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-22 0:00 ` John Harbaugh
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1996-07-24 0:00 ` John Harbaugh
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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