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A comment on The Dawn of Haiku OS.

Re:The Dawn of Haiku OS by sslemon on Sunday April 29, 2012 @01:00AM (#3905153)
"Generally, there is one thread for each application and one for the operating system’s user interface as well."

I think the article writer meant "process" -- there are many threads per process, and that is present in most "contemporary operating systems". If this is their (Haiku Inc.'s) attempt at PR... they are not doing it well.

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Re:The Dawn of Haiku OS by Schweigi on Sunday April 29, 2012 @01:55AM (#3905242)
The writer meant exactly what he wrote. Thats the reason you have to delegate UI updates from worker threads to the UI thread.
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Re:The Dawn of Haiku OS by icebraining on Sunday April 29, 2012 @07:14AM (#3905707)
There can be many threads per process, but plenty of applications ("Generally") are still single-threaded or even if they aren't, they only use one for the UI.
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