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Thw Amiga OS, released around that time was completely and pervasively based on threads and IIRC, everything but the alíen standard libraries provided with C compilers were thread safe.
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Re^7: Disadvantage of not supporting pthreads in perl and how perl overcomes? (cores)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 17, 2015 at 22:22 UTC

    Nice example.

    Though that is somewhat different in as much as the all the threads -- system, user, programs, drivers everything -- ran in the context of a single shared memory space.

    In effect, the entire single-user OS +everything that it ran was a single, multi-threaded process.

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