Quote: Smartcom for Windows abandoned concurrent programming due to difficulties with Smartcom III; problems remained with efficiency, non-reentrant message handlers, and unbounded message recursion

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The Smartcom III team experience with concurrency was … the successor program, Smartcom for Windows … Several significant lessons were learned from this experience. … it took more code to write certain types … [e.g., the Zmodem file transfer code was twice as long] … loss of efficiency [due to state-driven processing] … giving up the concurrent programming model still did … the problems of non-reentrant message handlers being invoked …   Google-1   Google-2

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