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- From: arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Message-ID: <59c0y*dzf@yaps.rhein.de>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:17:57 +0100
- References: <4dtbl0$84n@sinsen.sn.no> <4dtgil$1kn@serpens.rhein.de>
- <4e382s$54t$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au> <4e3imr$is@serpens.rhein.de>
- <jdm.822861553@thetics>
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- In article <jdm.822861553@thetics>, Jesse writes:
-
- > What if you use the OS (ooo!) to shut it down
-
- Mu. You cannot use the OS to shut it down. You can just gather data
- from it and then kill it, but short of a reboot, there is no way to
- safely restart AmigaOS after a complete overtake of the machine.
-
- > and use your
- > own preemptive multitasking kernel (which has lower overhead and is more suited
- > for the task than exec),
-
- Where do you see sources of overhead in the design of Exec which
- another kernel could overcome?
-
- > There are good hardware programmers and bad OS programmers.
-
- Yes, but there are no good non-OS programs.
-
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