[Lazarus] Why development remains constant for msdos?

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Schnell schrieb:
> 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.

Do you mean DOS as a (16 bit) OS, or as a DOS-Box (terminal)?

I doubt that a DOS OS supports threading at all (scheduling...). What's 
a thread worth when it never executes?

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