Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Low level Hard disk drivers Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 91 12:37:47 GMT References: <20115@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar27.012717.11541@starnet.uucp> <1998@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> <1991Mar27.175514.25590@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <00670283123@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> Lines: 36 >In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: [rant rant rant] >Flattery will get you everywhere. Anyhow, Commodore does recommend 2K stacks >in my RKMs. I have read all the DevCon notes, and AmigaMail, too. The OS >does use the stack for other things. 1.3 Includes and Autodocs, p. A-10, exec.library AddTask: "The absolute smallest stack that is allowable is something in the range of 100 bytes, but un general the stack size is dependent on what subsystems are called. In general, 256 bytes is sufficient if only exec.library is called, and 4K will do if anything in the system is called. Since you're all such macho programmers, and write all your own routines, you can get by with less than 2K, I think. >The Amiga started a whole new jargon in computer terms. Before the Amiga, >nobody ever heard of multimedia/desktop video. The Amiga is also a >MULTIENVIRONMENT machine. You can get Unix, MSDOS, C64, Macintosh, >Atari ST, OS-9, MINIX, and even CP/M for it. In this scheme of things, >video games are their own environments. Why do people get so down on games >for hosing the OS when many of the other environments do? Does a HD Installable >game work under AMax? Nooooo, people rave about AMax, but games sell more >Amigas than Amax does. Unix multitasks. MSDOS coexists with AmigaDOS. I beleive at least one of the C-64 emulators multitasks with AmigaDOS. OS-9 multitasks. Minix multitasks. The CP/M emulator multitasks with AmigaDOS. I'm not sure about the Atari-ST emulators; I've never used one. I don't own or intend to buy AMax. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |