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From: phils@tekigm.UUCP (Phil Staub)
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Subject: Re: Some remarks to AmigaDos.
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Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 11:53:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 24 11:53:43 1986
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In article <8610231957.AA13424@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>	BCPL programs, it seems, communicate directly with DOS via their
>process's message port (every process has one).   On the Amiga, anything
>having to do with BCPL is non-standard relative to the rest of the machine.
>

I can't stand it any more! All this talk about BCPL, and the only thing you
find in the Amiga literature is references to bits and pieces about the
tip of the iceberg indicating the BCPL roots of AmigaDOS. Three questions:

1. Why was so much of AmigaDOS written in BCPL?

2. How does one go about programming in BCPL on the Amiga.
If it is with some stuff the developers got, but we ordinary users don't
have access to, is there any plan to make a BCPL programming package
available to the general user?

3. Where do you find some reference material on BCPL, since it's not one of
the current "in" languages?

(Sorry to pick on you for an example, Matt, but you seem to be doing a lot
of posting of articles pertaining to BCPL, so I snagged one of your articles
to cite)

Thanks for preserving my sanity,

Phil Staub
Tektronix, Inc.
ISI Engineering
P.O. Box 3500
Vancouver, Washington 98668
C1-904, (206) 253-5634
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