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[Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Ouch!, that line sounded bitter.

I second that.

> Personally I'm quite comfortable debugging multithreaded apps.
> The concept of parallelism will become very important as operating 
> systems and programs become more distributed. This is already 
> happening in business and science applications. 

Yes, but it's also why some new BeOS developers were afraid of the BeOS
forced-multithreading side, because they're/wasn't comfortable at all,
coming from Old' Sequential Coding & Design World.

And this don't help BeOS to acquire new developers (and, so, new softwares).
Even, suprisingly, from big software editors, which seems to suffer this
uncomfortable_with_mutlithreading problem too...

> A multithreaded OS starts us off on the right foot as far as I can see.
> This kind of multithreading also lends itself to the even distribution of 
> workload across multiple processors, which BeOS excels at.

Oh yes.
Too soon maybe. 
:-)
:-|
:-(

Philippe