Bibliography

Steve Kleiman, Devang Shah, and Bart Smaalders, Programming with Threads. Upper Saddle River, NJ: SunSoft Press, Feb. 1996 (534 pages, source on the Web). Covers POSIX threads, concentrating on the Solaris implementation. It has a small but adequate introduction, then concentrates on more advanced programming issues. The examples are good because they are realistic and show you what to expect. They are bad because they are very realistic and obscure the main points in the text.

Len Dorfman and Marc J. Neuberger, Effective Multithreading with OS/2. New York: McGraw-Hill, Nov. 1995 (280 pages, source on diskette). Gives a brief introduction, then focuses the rest of the discussion on the API and examples. It covers the OS/2 API.

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