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From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
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Date: 24 Jan 91 17:49:25 GMT
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<11836@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
|<17913@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie):
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|> updated, at best, when an application is started up.  On the Amiga, an 
|> application can not only import a file, but ask the filesystem to send it a
|> message if that file ever changes.
|
|And that's what happens under System 7 (via the Edition Manager).  

And OS9 L-II 3.0 had it.  And I suspect most OS's will before very long,
if they don't already.  OS's seem to be converging at a rapid rate.
It's just a matter of time before they all look quite similar to the
programmer.  Dunno if that's good or bad (I tend to think "good").

Sidenote: I'm not sure why some mention that System 7 isn't out yet.
Amiga 2.0 isn't out yet for 500's, I thought.  And sure won't be for
my A1000 :-(.  This kind of argument is a two-way street; and obviously
nulls out within a fairly short period of time.  cheers - kev