Is there a shore release available for Windows NT 4.0?
Not at this time. However, we have recently received funding from Microsoft to help with an NT port. Work has just started, and I cannot give a precise release date at this time. The trickiest part is likely to be the threads package, and the diskrw program from the src/sthreads directory. Adapting the threads package from the Solaris X86 version may not be too hard. The result would be that all the Shore threads would run as one NT thread, with non-preemptive scheduling among them. This would not be able to take effective advantage of multi-processor systems, but would be adequate for some purposes. The problem with diskrw is that it uses “System V-style” shared memory segments. It might be easier to convert this program from a stand-alone process to another thread (or threads) in the storage manager. A much more ambitious port would involve replacing Shore threads with NT threads altogether. The problem is that Shore threads are non-preemptive, and much of the code depends on that
