Does anyone have any information on thread programming for VMS?
No ftp or web stuff, although we do have an HTML version of the Guide to DECthreads and we’ll probably try to get it outside the firewall where it’ll do y’all some good, one of these days. I’ve been very impressed with Sun’s “thread web site”, and I’d like to get Digital moving in that direction to help with the global work of evangelizing threads… but not until I’ve finished coding, and writing, and consulting, and all sorts of other things that seem to take 500% of my time. For general info, and some information (though not enough) on using POSIX threads, check Sun’s library. (They need to start tapering off the UI threads.) If you’ve got VMS (anything since 5.5-2), you’ll have a hardcopy of the Guide in your docset, and on the doc cdrom in Bookreader format. OpenVMS version 7.0 has POSIX 1003.1c-1995 threads — anything earlier has only the old CMA and 1003.4a/D4 “DCE threads”. Furthermore, OpenVMS Alpha 7.0 supports SMP threads (kernel support for dynamic “many to few” scheduling
