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- Subject: Re: Applying patches to MiNT source
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 23:44:20 CES
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <9308181904.AA23422@phlem.ph.kcl.ac.uk>; from "sjg@phlem.ph.kcl.ac.uk" at Aug 18, 93 8:04 pm
- Message-Id: <9308192144.AA00121@jelal.north.de>
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- sjg@phlem.ph.kcl.ac.uk writes:
-
- > > Hmm... if I'm not very much mistaken, for most of us here the distinction
- > > between MiNT and Unix is getting a bit blurred. The only real things I have
- > > missing are sockets, real filesystem mounting and virtual memory, oh and a
- > > non-blocking fork(). :-)
- > >
- > > TOS utilities... GEM... what are they? :-)
-
- how true. (well maybe if GEM wouldn't be so dead sloow and stop
- wasting cycles polling the mouse...)
-
- > >
- > One more thing - a threaded filesystem interface, so HD activity
- > doesn't slow the machine to a crawl (relative to how it performs
- > normally).
-
- and disk drivers that know readv/writev and don't stop everything
- while busy-waiting for DMA...
-
- :-)
- Juergen
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