On Sat, 10 Jun 1995, Ty Sarna wrote:

> In article <9506102005.AA01973@cs.montana.edu>,
> Lance Kind  <lancer@cs.montana.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > 	Are pthreads implemented in NetBSD-Amiga?  Does anyone have any
> > good pointers to pthreads documentation?
> > 
> > 	I am looking into porting HotJava to NetBSD; HotJava apparently
> > needs pthreads.
> 
> NetBSD has a pthreads library, but I beileiev it is out of date WRT the
> rest of NetBSD. It does not support m68k. One difficulty with an Amiga
> implementation is that the Ami doesn't support TAS, so a syscall would
> be needed to simulate it (slow). And, since NetBSD/m68k8k binaries should

But a working TAS is only needed in a SMP setting, isn't it?  The only worry
in a single-processor machine is that the processor is dispatched to handle
an interrupt in the middle of a TAS instruction.  Since there are no 
symmetric MP Amigas, I think it's pretty much a moot point.

Eduardo