DOCUMENT:Q100573  25-JUN-1993  [W_NT]
TITLE   :INF: Windows NT Imposes No Limit on Threads per Application
PRODUCT :Windows NT
PROD/VER:3.10
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Windows NT operating system, version 3.1
 - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server, version 3.1
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Unlike the OS/2 operating system, Windows NT does not impose any limit
on the number of threads each process can contain. Windows NT is
designed to be limited only by the amount of disk space available (in
other words, by space in the paging file). Therefore, you can design
an application that uses threads to use as many as it needs, without
concern that enough threads remain available to run another
application. This should help streamline your application design
process.

Additional reference words: 3.10 winnt pertune

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