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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-Id: <3706.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: Tue, 13 May 1991 07:11:03 GMT
References: <3515.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991May10.183627.29486@neon.Stanford.EDU> <3626.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991May12.204607.22101@dvorak.amd.com>
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.

Quoted from <1991May12.204607.22101@dvorak.amd.com> by tim@proton.amd.com (Tim Olson):
> In article <3626.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

> |     In any case, I'm surprised. Is the Amiga OS the only rational one
> |     in this bunch, eh?
> 
> Are you sure that system calls to Amiga OS *don't* use some sort of
> TRAP instruction (usually hidden in a library routine).  I seem to

    Some must do so. This is somewhat different from being the interface
    to the OS, though.

> 	-- Tim Olson
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