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28 Jul 2024 20:32:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: SMP povray design?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 25 May 1999 13:04:06
Message: <374ac9f6.0@news.povray.org>
In article <374aa7a5.0@news.povray.org> , par### [at] fwicom (Ron Parker) 
wrote:

> Okay, now let's stop ignoring how hard a multithreaded design is.  Can
> I ask all of you "we need SMP so we need threads" people what's wrong
> with plain ol' fork?  Yeah, Winblows doesn't support fork natively,
> but that seems like something Mickeysoft should fix.  Or just install
> a real OS on your fancy SMP machine.

NT is POSIX compliant, and maybe Windows 2001 will be as well :-)


    Thorsten


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