See editorial 96/01/15; Solaris Multithreaded Programming Guide ISBN 0-13-160896-7; a multithreaded Web query server; the announcement of the IEEE POSIX pthreads multithreading standard; Sun's threads FAQ.
Some further reading:
See editorial 95/12/18;
Intel/HP collaboration and the P7;
a bibliography;
BYTE article;
the JIFFE Robot Control Processor;
the M-Machine successor to the Multiflow Trace;
the MOVE project at University of Delft, Holland;
``Percolation Scheduling is a system for performing parallelizing transformations for the VLIW and superscalar computation models,''
Philips TriMedia division's VLIW DSP;
Lycos search for VLIW.