The Old New Thing

Who would ever write a multi-threaded GUI program?

June 17, 2014 Jun 17, 2014 06/17/14

Raymond Chen

During the development of Windows 95, the user interface team discovered that a component provided by another team didn't work well under multi-threaded conditions. It was documented that the function had to be the first call made by a thread into the component. The user interface team discovered that if one thread called , and then ...