[frantz@netcom.com: Re: SAS Systems]

[Jonathan Shapiro]

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From: frantz@netcom.com (William S. Frantz)
Subject: Re: SAS Systems
To: baford@schirf.cs.utah.edu (Bryan Ford)
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 17:40:10 -0800 (PST)
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I assume your literature search on SAS systems has turned up the
considerable literature on IBM's OS/360 and OS/SVS systems.  These
were single address systems that enjoyed considerable commercial
success.  There were many applications/subsystems which used multiple
"tasks" (threads in UNIXspeak) implemented for these systems.

In fact, I think the IBM's current MVS system could be considered
a form of "small number of address space" system.  There are many
cases of multiple tasks in one address space on these systems.
If I remember correctly, it is even an option with the Fortran 
compiler.

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