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- From: pendersa@tezcat.com (Alain Penders (3505))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: FindTask() VERY IMPORTANT
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 10:34:19 GMT
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- Marco Nelissen (marcone@xs1.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : Bull. If AT decides to remove the ThisTask field (and God knows how many others),
- : all current software will have to be examined and possibly reprogrammed before
- : being recompiled to native PPC code. This means that it will take longer to
- : convert currently existing software to a native PPC form. Is that what you want?
-
- Yes, the field is valid now... no, it might not be valid in the feature... what's
- the big deal ??
-
- The Amiga is moving to a new generation... you can't expect to have all the new
- fancy hardware without any software changes whatsoever... the OS needs an
- overhaul right now to make it work on PPC. Now is the right time to throw all
- bugs out.. now is the time to change those things that would make life a hell
- if we went multi-processor... execbase is one of those things...
-
- Alain
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