> Yeah, but a credible "multi-tasking" operating system ought to be able
    > to do both without excessive messiness.

    Well, then UNIX was not a credible "multi-tasking" operating system until
    pthreads came along. The POSIX standard for pthreads came out in 1995.

Yup.  I probably should have put "modern" in my assertion somewhere.

BillW (an original member of the unix-hater's mailing list.)

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