Re: Why does coroutine.create return a thread?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> 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
>

Pre-OSX, actually.

/s/ Adam