[Lazarus] Why development remains constant for msdos?

[Michael Schnell]

On 09/24/2013 10:58 AM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:
>
> When you try to create a thread, your program terminates and writes a 
> message that threading is not supported.

While this absolutely does make sense, one could think about alternatives.

AFAIK, (at least for some archs) there is a variant of the pthread 
(="POSIX thread") library, that internally does "user-land 
multithreading". IIRC, the original POSIX definition was done with 
exactly this in mind and, regarding Linux, the original Linux 
implementations (aka "Linux Threads")  was not fully compatible with 
POSIX. Only some years ago, the Linux changed it's way of Kernel-based 
thread handling to the POSIX compatible "NPTL" implementation.

Thus it should be possible to link fpc projects to a user-land thread 
enabled version of pthreadlib and allow for working with TThread in DOS.

-Michael