doc: reword POSIX threads text in addons.md

PR-URL: #36436 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]>
nodejs · Dec 21, 2020 · e331de2 · e331de2
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@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ involving knowledge of several components and APIs:
   serves as a cross-platform abstraction library, giving easy, POSIX-like
   access across all major operating systems to many common system tasks, such
   as interacting with the filesystem, sockets, timers, and system events. libuv
-  also provides a pthreads-like threading abstraction that may be used to
-  power more sophisticated asynchronous addons that need to move beyond the
+  also provides a threading abstraction similar to POSIX threads for
+  more sophisticated asynchronous addons that need to move beyond the
   standard event loop. Addon authors are encouraged to think about how to
   avoid blocking the event loop with I/O or other time-intensive tasks by
   off-loading work via libuv to non-blocking system operations, worker threads