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On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 13:56 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 05 July 2010, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 14:52 +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> > > Ozk made some stuff that made use of threads about 10 years ago, but I
> > > don't know how he did it. Perhaps he can explain if he follows this
> > > list these days.
> >
> > Right, this is GNU pth. Which has a "pthreads emulation". This is all in
> > user-space with jmp table fudging. No kernel support at all.
> 
> Any idea how well that worked on MiNT?

Not really. Can't say I've tested it extensively.

Alan.