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To: Alomex who wrote (17071)	8/21/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: Phillip C. Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Alomex, There's no offense. I just wonder why you put those terms tegother which makes me uncomfortable. Multi-threading was originally developed by DEC VMS, they called it multi-tasking, best in real time system. Later, all unix/C++ uses it for object-oriented approach. You could spawn any objects from their parent. Do you really know Corba? Hehe..., I am just kidding. Phil

To: Alomex who wrote (17071)	8/21/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: IanBruce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Apple did not invent any of those, nor did it invent much else during the last decade. That is the point. Hard to be the R&D of a Microsoft when you produce nothing new. I think it's time to get your rock redecorated. IEEE 1394 or "Firewire" was invented by Apple. Please refer to the April '97 issue of IEEE Spectrum or the 1394 trade Association at <http://www.firewire.org/> (BTW: the Featured Product there is "G3 systems made with Firewire"). Apple not only invented Firewire, it also initiated the IEEE standard which led the market adoption of this technology. Apple's been OEMing IEEE 1394 link and PHY chip designs since 1994. Firewire was approved as an IEEE standard in late 1995. And QuickTime's so good that Microsoft's tried to steal it on at least three occasions. MPEG-4 which'll be showing up in everything from networking, multimedia compression, DVD, Camcorders, wireless, broadcast, digital audio, etc. is entirely based on QuickTime. From Dataquest: "MPEG's decision to utilize the QuickTime file format for the MPEG-4 specification has huge benefits for users and the industry", said Ralph Rogers, Principal Analyst for Multimedia at Dataquest, San Jose. "This strategy will leverage the broad adoption of QuickTime in the professional media space, speed the creation of MPEG-4 tools and content while providing a common target for industry adoption." QuickTime and FireWire are both Apple trademarks. If you have any further questions on this subject you can contact: Murray Slovick, (212) 705-7556 or email him at <m.slovick@ieee.org>. Eric Anderson, (408) 974-8187 or email him at <ewa@apple.com> Ian Bruce New York, NY

To: Alomex who wrote (17071)	8/23/1998 9:53:00 PM
From: Matthew Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

>Multi-threading can be applied for eating spaghetti. When eating, the >spaghetti keeps falling off, >so you better spin your fork() and you get a twist of spaghetti(code) >and thus you can eat faster. >(The technique has also been extended to macarooni.) cute little saying... did you use it for a memory jog for a exam? Unfortunatly you are wrong what you have described is multi-processing. The routine fork() basically makes a complete copy of a running application so you end up with two processes running. These processes are totally independent but identical. multi threading actually is a single application that has different concurrent "threads" of execution. all these threads share the same memory space and run inside one application... the routine best associated with multi threading is either thread() or pthread() for posix's compliant threads Matt