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Sure but you would have learned it in 1995 too.

• winstonprivacy 3y ago
  I learned about it in 1991.
• jghn 3y ago
  As a freshman CS student? Granted things were changing rapidly in the 90s, but this wasn't the case my freshman year a couple of years prior. I know that I was aware of the concept of threading by my sophomore or junior year, and by the time I graduated had encountered them first hand. I'm not sure we even covered multitasking (fork() and friends) at all in my freshman year, but of that I'm far less certain.
• radomir_cernoch 3y ago
  From my freshman years around 2005, I vaguely remember that multi-thread GUI apps were: - a way to avoid blocking the UI, - tool to gain some perf. on new fancy multi-core processors, - making the code much harder to read and debug, which often makes them a victim in a cost-benefit analysis.
  • varjag 3y ago
    Point is the programming paradigm of POSIX threads or multitasking wasn't a new concept then and likewise been in the curriculum for a while. Multi-core only brought a new level of performance to it. There were in fact attempts for new concurrency paradigms (like Software Transactional Memory) which however led nowhere outside academia.