[TUHS] non-blocking IO - threads

Jon Forrest nobozo at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 03:57:33 AEST 2020



On 6/3/2020 9:42 AM, Paul Winalski wrote:
> The problem is that VMS at the time
> didn't have a threads package.  I had to roll my own threads by using
> the asynchronous system traps (ASTs) delivered by completion of I/O to
> the pseudo-terminals.  Talk about messy....

That's also how the Sybase SQL Server worked on VMS at the same time.

Jon


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