Well, the earliest version of the code that would morph first into a terminal emulator, and eventually become Linux "was written to use one thread to write the

Well, the earliest version of the code that would morph first into a terminal emulator, and eventually become Linux "was written to use one thread to write the letter A to the screen. The other thread wrote the letter B."¹ Who knows what direction this OS will evolve along? ¹ Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun, pp.63