Thread (computing)
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In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which is typically a part of the operating system. In m
Program vs. process vs. thread scheduling, preemption, context switching
Victor A. Vyssotsky
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Victor Alexander Vyssotsky was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for his work on Multics and co-creating Darwin, the first programming game.
Thread (computing)
…available configurations of the OS/360 control system, of which multiprogramming with a variable number of tasks (MVT) was one. Saltzer (1966) credits Victor A. Vyssotsky with the term "thread". The Mach implementation of threads was described in the summer of 1986. OS/2 1.0, released in 1987, supported threads. Digital…
Victor A Vyssotsky