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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: dosread.c again
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Date: 26 Oct 89 09:41:15 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Oct 25 12:21:00 1989



>Right. Single-tasking was forced by a hardware design requirement. The
>lack of ANY support for serial I/O was a hardware design requirement.

>Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

Above qoute taken out of context. The context shows that Mr. de Silva
thinks that single-tasking was NOT forced by the hardware. 

I contend that attempting a fully functional multitasking system
without hardware memory management is a mistake. I am familiar with
two attempts: Microsoft Windows and the present Mac. They both suffer
mightily because the try to move things around in memory without
relocation hardware. A disaster of the first magnitude.

Doug McDonald