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- Date: Thu, 26 May 94 17:22 CDT
- From: ekl@sdf.lonestar.org (Evan K. Langlois)
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- Subject: GEMDOS re-entrancy
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- So my vote is: Block GEMDOS, AES and VDI for a first attempt. It
- will still prove to be useful, and I could at least add some
- kind of background transfer into the driver and have it tested.
-
- BTW: I would be interested how all this will be done in Mag!X.
- I hear that they are working on all those things that we are still
- just discussing. D*mn, how I wish we could somehow merge MiNT
- and Mag!X...
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- Alright, how do we work the semaphores? Just put the trap to a routine
- that puts the process to sleep? Hmm .. that won't work if the traps are
- per-process. Hmm ... I guess it doesn't really matter. It looks like the
- best bet for now.
-
- I don't like Mag!x. No pipes, no memory protection, no shared memory,
- no Unix tools (such as multi-user), no loadable device drivers or file
- systems, and a limit of 16 processes. I hope that process list doesn't
- count TSRs and deamons or sleeping parents waiting on a child, or that
- list will get filled awfully quick. I hear that most of the OS is just
- "borrowed" routines. Modem IO is HSMODEM, and other such routines.
- Merging MiNT and Mag!x wouldn't really be possible, well, maybe it could,
- but Mag!x is commercial, and they want money.
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