TextIO (Java)

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I honestly didn't expect to leave this forum knowing anything other than what I asked. I certainly didn't expect getting in-depth explanations and so I've happily voted up all of your posts that I found useful.

Hmm, perhaps threading came to be when DDR replaced SDR (or SDRAM)?




In any case, thank you for all of your help and explanations. It's inevitable that I'll have more questions to come, so would you mind if I added you as a friend here? I understand you have projects and other concerns so obviously, I'll seek answers elsewhere before resorting to asking you. But it's always helpful to network. Additionally, it's hard to find experienced people that are able to think on a beginner's level and answer questions in a comprehensible manner. Besides, as a newbie to the forums, I need friends :P.

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Well, when you ask the right questions and give the right answers you may learn more than provided for. Personally, I do a lot of my own research, and I've never really been much of a teacher, much less a question answerer. Thanks for the thumbs up though :)

Wikipedia claims that multithreading came to be some time around early 1990s. I usually skip over the history lessons unless they provide some kind of insight into some kind of inner workings.

And of course you're welcome. Always happy to help as I can. If you wish you can freely add me as a friend (I wasn't even aware there was such a function). Lastly, I must say that I am quite a noob myself, it just so happened that most of the concepts in question I knew a thing or two about. You haven't heard the pros talk just yet, they're the ones that really make you drop your jaws :D

Yo dawg, don't even trip.


Whereas true multi-tasking programs can only be achieved on a multi-core processor...
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It can also occur on a multi-processor system. Moving the multiple computing units onto a single core is just a recent specialisation of such technology.


The latest OS that I'm sure could run more than one process was Windows 95 and that system I'm pretty sure came before dual core CPUs were invented.[/quote]
Multi-tasking operating systems and multi-processor systems predate Windows (and even DOS!), but mainly on "mainframes" and not often for consumer systems. Some basic research on the wikipedia suggests that an early, simple context switching computer was available in 1961. Multi-processor systems (not multi-core) were available in the middle of the 1960s.
Oh thanks for that rip-off! Multi-processor systems completely skipped my mind O.o I've seen a motherboard with 4 CPU sockets before, but I forgot all about them.

Yo dawg, don't even trip.


Oh thanks for that rip-off! Multi-processor systems completely skipped my mind O.o I've seen a motherboard with 4 CPU sockets before, but I forgot all about them.

Oh, absolutely. I've seen motherboards with multiple slots for slot processors before it's socket successor was introduced, but I wasn't aware that their functionality was comparable to that of today's multi-core processors. Or perhaps I misunderstood rip-off?

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