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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 23:46:52 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- jdm@atheria.europa.com (Jesse) writes:
-
- >Definitely wrong? What if you use the OS (ooo!) to shut it down and use your
- >own preemptive multitasking kernel (which has lower overhead and is more suited
- >for the task than exec), restoring the system when your program is finished?
-
- I can remember that I explained this again and again. There is NO method
- to _restore_ the operating system short of a reboot. This is also true
- for the shutdown of the operating system by lowlevel.library.
-
- >That covers two of those "deficiencies" easily. Nothing is definite.
-
- It does neither.
-
- >Of course there is. You just have to write your own code to handle it.
-
- But you cannot write your own code to handle non-standard hardware.
- Isn't that obvious ?
-
- >Just like the four you mentioned above.
-
- Exactly _not_ like the four you mentioned above.
-
- >Some are considerably easier than others
- >and some are not officially sanctioned as "good" things to do, but they're
- >certainly possible.
-
- It is not a matter of "sanctioning". It is a matter of functionality.
- And you absolutely _cannot_ restore OS operations for every legal
- configuration. You may do this for certain configurations with certain
- versions of the operating system and a certain set of running programs.
- You cannot do this for everything.
-
- >Anyone claiming than you can't do the above without the OS is simply naive.
-
- No, he is fully aware what is possible and what isn't.
-
- > 1. Those that are perfect programmers and are "enlightened" enough to only
- > use the OS.
- > 2. Those that who use the hardware and are such bad programmers that the
- > couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.
-
- >That's _stupid_. There are good hardware programmers and bad OS programmers.
-
- Obviously there are. But most so-called hardware programmers _are_ bad programmers.
- Reality proves me right and so do your statements.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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