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Re^3: Visualizing bugsby BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Dec 20, 2004 at 13:32 UTC ( [id://416173]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
In my first ever multi-threaded program, written to run under OS/2 pre-1.0, the only reentrant IO function available was Beep( freq, duration ). So
You could suspend/resume each of the threads by typing it's thread number on the keyboard. It wasn't much of a program, but you'd be amazed how many grown men (and women) spent an inordinate amount of time being amused by it:) Examine what is said, not who speaks.
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