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MiNT is Not TOS: A Multitasking Operating System Extension for the Atari ST
Copyright 1990,1991 Eric R. Smith. All rights reserved. See the file COPYING
for conditions of redistribution.
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Features of MiNT that are incompatible with TOS (some might regard these
as bugs):
Processes may have only 32 open files each.
Some low level disk utilities may get very confused if asked to operate on
a pseudo-drive, like Q:, or on a non-tos filesystem.
The BIOS I/O routines on devices 0, 1, and 2 may be redirected by
redirecting file handles -3, -2, and -1 respectively, i.e. they are
no longer guaranteed to access the same printer, rs232, and console
(although they do by default). Similarly, BIOS device 4 is controlled by
file handles -4 (input) and -5 (output) and so it might not always refer
to the MIDI port.
Filenames that are 4 characters long, with a ':' in the 4th position,
are assumed to be device names and are translated into references to drive
V:, i.e. "con:" means "V:\CON". TOS doesn't always do this translation,
it seems, because I can recall creating files named "con:" in the current
directory (not that I *wanted* to, which is the whole point of MiNT's
feature).
All CTRL-ALT-function key combinations are reserved by MiNT. Not many
programs use these, so this shouldn't be a big problem.