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- From: petrin@walrus.megabaud.fi (Petri Nordlund)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Executive and AmiTCP..
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 10:48:46 +0200
- Organization: Megabaud Oy,Helsinki,Finland
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- Steve Koren (koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com) writes:
- >> Really ? I am working with JM under OS 3.1 without problems, so
- >> whats the matter with JM ?
- >
- >There are a number of problems actually. One of the major ones is that
- >JM uses the tc_Switch and tc_Launch vectors of the task structure for
- >its own purposes. This is OK with about 99% of all software out there,
- >but the other 1% or so tries to use them too, and won't work together
- >with JM.
-
- Executive uses exec function Switch() and ex_LaunchPoint instead,
- and a hash-table for finding the internal information structure
- for a task.
-
- >Although JM does have one advantage: its free.
-
- Except that the unregistered version of Executive does much more
- than the free JM. :) When you register, you'll get more schedulers
- and clients, but all the essential stuff (and much more) works on
- the unregistered version.
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