C++ and multitasking

[keith gorlen]

Release 1 of the C++ Translator comes with a tasking package (task.h),
and I've also implemented one of my own as part of an Object-Oriented
Program Support (OOPS) class library for C++.  The task.h package is
oriented toward applications such as simulation, and the OOPS package is
better suited to external event processing.  Both contain a small amount
of assembler code to handle coroutine creation and coroutine calls.

Multiprocessing with coroutines does not require any language features
peculiar to C++; it requires only run-time support and could be
implemented in plain old C.

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	Keith Gorlen
	Computer Systems Laboratory
	Division of Computer Research and Technology
	National Institutes of Health
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