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From:Allan Odgaard
Date:13 Dec 99 at 13:14:34
Subject:Re: Multithreading + gfx cards

From: Allan Odgaard <Duff@DIKU.DK>

On 12-Dec-99, Colin Wenzel wrote:

> I had trouble just with "Text" functions writing to the maintask's
> rastport. It crashed randomly, at the finish, I simply used
> my sub task to fill a buffer with the ascii then Signal() the main
> task to render it...

This sounds weird. Few OS structures contain e.g. a message port, and is
therefor bound to a certain task - but everybody can render to a rastport, so
I'm quite sure something else was wrong with your program.

Regards Allan



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