Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!sdcc6!beowulf!djohnson From: djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Why Amiga Gurus???? Message-ID: <16264@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 2 Feb 91 04:05:58 GMT References: <1991Jan31.035105.14277@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <156@dogmelb.dog.oz.au> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Organization: CSE Dept., UC San Diego Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: beowulf.ucsd.edu In article t22918@ursa (Matt Ranney ) writes: >Why can't Amiga's handle failed tasks like the Unix OS can? I'd be perfectly >happy to have my computer tell me that a task failed, and all it's allocated >resources had been returned. Herein lies the problem. The OS does not keep track of allocated resources. (sigh) However! the GOMF program (commercial, but old PD version on a Fish disk) will attempt to recover resources from failed tasks, remove the task, and let you continue on your way. It doesn't do a perfect job, but works most of the time, with only a little loss of memory. -- Darin Johnson djohnson@ucsd.edu - Political correctness is Turing undecidable.