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From: neil@amiga.UUCP (Neil Katin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: beta 4
Message-ID: <1468@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Aug-86 18:11:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  5 18:11:01 1986
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In article <661@usc-oberon.UUCP> spencer@usc-oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer) writes:
>I have just got one question, and it is just one word:
>
>Resident?
>
>I want to use it so bad!  Has any body got an example of how to use it?  I want
>to get lattice and emacs both in ram, boy that would be great.  Is there any
>programs that run as a demonstration?  I am going to be such a happy man!
>
>ps.  Resident is a new, documented by two sentences, command on the v1.2
>     toolkit disk.
>-- 

The resident command links segments together onto a system list.
There is a special cli (on the toolkit disk) that searches this list
first to find your programs.

HOWEVER, your code needs to be fully reentrant to live on this list.
Neither lattice C nor emacs are reentrant.  It turns out that all BCPL
programs are.  C programs can be written so that they are reentrant,
but they typically are not.

We are working on a fuller set of 1.2 release notes now.  We hope to
get most of the new features talked about in this new & improved release
notes.

	Neil Katin