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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
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Date: 31 Jan 91 22:40:27 GMT
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Quoted from <1991Jan30.131318.18064@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> by kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling):
> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes

> > There is another level to the OS that does the multitasking and
> > inter-process stuff, called Exec. This is not related to Tripos.

    Oops. Can I take this back? :) I made the assumption that Exec !=
    Tripos because of the BCPL/C differences apparent in the two
    parts of the system.

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> WHAT IS TRIPOS: The system was first developed some years ago in the
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