Many of the terms and concepts are abstract and thus difficult for humans to fully understand (much less agree upon). Some of the terms and primitives go way b

Many of the terms and concepts are abstract and thus difficult for humans to fully understand (much less agree upon). Some of the terms and primitives go way back too (1980s). Thread research is a good example. And then the concrete implementations come along (pthreads, etc.) that may keep some names/concepts, but change others: 1989 - An Introduction to Programming with Threads https://birrell.org/andrew/papers/035-Threads.pdf https://birrell.org/andrew/papers/035-Threads.pdf 1992 - Beyond Multiprocessing: Multithreading the SUnOS Kernel https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/sa92/eykholt.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...