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From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Icon Co-Expressions in Ada
Date: 1998/12/17
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Mats Weber wrote:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> > If "suspend" has its usual English meaning, the user should be using
> > tasks; one task is suspended while another is running.
> 
> Not true on a multiprocessor, or even with time slicing.
> 
I must also add, that one of the main points of this exercise, is hiding
the tasking details from the programmer.

Ehud Lamm     mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il