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- Subject: Re: Why does coroutine.create return a thread?
- From: Coda Highland <chighland@...>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:36:29 -0700
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Coda Highland once stated:
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Gregg Reynolds <dev@mobileink.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > the amazingly cool thing is that we can have cooperative multitasking even
>> > with a single sequential thread of execution. magic. kinda makes you
>> > rethink your concept of execution, thread, etc.
>>
>> The fun part is when you realize that before Windows 95, the entire
>> Windows operating system was cooperatively multitasked, and apps were
>> expected to yield quickly when awakened by the OS.
>
> And the same with older versions of the Macintosh operating system (Pre
> System 6? Pre System 7? I wasn't a Mac user at the time).
>
> -spc
>
Pre-OSX, actually.
/s/ Adam