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Threads made an early appearance under the name of "tasks" in [[OS/360 and successors#MVT|OS/360 Multiprogramming with a Variable Number of Tasks]] (MVT) in 1967. Saltzer (1966) credits [[Victor A. Vyssotsky]] with the term "thread".<ref>{{Cite thesis|url=http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/MIT-MAC-TR-030.ocr.pdf|title=Traffic Control in a Multiplexed Computer System|first=Jerome Howard|last=Saltzer|author-link=Jerry Saltzer|degree=Doctor of Science|date=July 1966|page=20}}</ref>

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== Processes, kernel threads, user threads, and fibers ==