Multithreaded

• aimed at GUI based network applications with many processes active simultaneously

• provides lightweight process threads

• simpler than in C or C++

• thread class methods to create, start, run, stop and check status of threads

• simple standard synchronization primitives based on the monitor and condition variable paradigm of C.A.R. Hoare

• Borrowed from Xerox's Cedar/Mesa

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