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Hey guys, i'm just gunna get this started by posting a few links for everyone to get going.  This will help explain a general idea of what they are and the history of them. Please add some more links or anything else you think would be helpful!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_Threads
https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/
http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

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Question

What is the history of POSIX Threads (pthreads)? Consider - does this history explain why UNIX was so late to implement support for multithreaded processes?

Answer

Hey guys, i'm just gunna get this started by posting a few links for everyone to get going. This will help explain a general idea of what they are and the history of them. Please add some more links or anything else you think would be helpful!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_Threads https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/ http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/