Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alzabo!andras
From: andras@alzabo.ocunix.on.ca (Andras Kovacs)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Asynchronous I/O on micros
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.004530.29359@alzabo.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 7 Feb 91 00:45:30 GMT
References: <3175@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <13632@lanl.gov> <63703@brunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: andras@alzabo.UUCP (Andras Kovacs)
Organization: Brian's XENIXlings, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <63703@brunix.UUCP> cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>In article <13632@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>>It's even showing up on (plans
>>at least) microcomputers.
>
>Hmm... I'd be interested in seeing you cite something on this (translate:
>"OH BOY!  You mean I can run CMS on my PC?"

    The proprietary OS for the Archimedes line of micros, RISC OS, has the
necessary hooks to implement asynchronous file-system I/O. I don't know about
the other OS (which is a UNIX implementation) though.

    Andras

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Andras Kovacs       "Could somebody tell me what kind of a world we live in
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