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That's missing the point of the article, but it's also not true, at least not at the time of C89. This can be easily verified by a Google search. As an aside, A
by LiamPowell 2y ago
That's missing the point of the article, but it's also not true, at least not at the time of C89. This can be easily verified by a Google search. As an aside, Ada also had multi-threading support before C89 was released, but this article is about SIMD, not multi-threading.
- johnnyjeans 2y agoc89 is 19 years into c's life
- LiamPowell 2y agoYes, but before standardisation there were many implementations all doing different things based on a book with no particularly formal specifications, so picking 1989 makes more sense than 1970 in my opinion. Multi-threading also existed in 1970 but wasn't as widespread.
- pjmlp 2y agoYou had plenty of places outside Bell Labs doing concurrency stuff, Concurrent Pascal and Solo OS is one example among many.