3 Jun
2020
3 Jun
'20
5:05 a.m.
It's only messy if you make a messy job of it.
-rob
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 8:36 AM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Lawrence Stewart writes:
I’ve always thought select(2) was a pretty good
thing. In 1995 at Open
Market we had a single-process web server that had no difficulties
running 1000 to 1200 connections. I think that was BSD, and later OSF-1.
So select was a great thing until interactive graphics came along. Just
got too messy. I recall writing assembly language code to support threads
in the mid to late 1980s, and I remember reading some papers from Sun about
the same. Everybody was doing it. Anybody have enough of the history to
paint a picture of how we got from there to standardized threads?
Jon