Re: Why does coroutine.create return a thread?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Coda Highland once stated:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Gregg Reynolds <dev@mobileink.com> wrote:
> >
> > the amazingly cool thing is that we can have cooperative multitasking even
> > with a single sequential thread of execution.  magic.  kinda makes you
> > rethink your concept of execution,  thread, etc.
> 
> The fun part is when you realize that before Windows 95, the entire
> Windows operating system was cooperatively multitasked, and apps were
> expected to yield quickly when awakened by the OS.

  And the same with older versions of the Macintosh operating system (Pre
System 6?  Pre System 7?  I wasn't a Mac user at the time).

  -spc