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That was the state-of-the-art in OS concurrency in the early nineties. Sometimes, you would have to reboot your computer because some app forgot to yield the e

That was the state-of-the-art in OS concurrency in the early nineties. Sometimes, you would have to reboot your computer because some app forgot to yield the event loop. It's not as bad if you have to restart your app because some task forgot to yield the event loop, but it's still bad. Threads solve this problem comprehensively because threads get to make progress regardless of whether or not other threads are in a loop.

vardump 9y ago
> That was the state-of-the-art in OS concurrency in the early nineties. Many systems had pre-emptive multitasking in seventies and eighties. I think Amiga was the first implementation for consumers. Released in 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000