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From: andy@amiga.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.2 resident query
Message-ID: <1607@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 20:37:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 14 20:37:38 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Nov-86 00:04:44 EST
References: <1017@husc2.UUCP>
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Keywords: 1.2, resident, ???

In article <1017@husc2.UUCP> wen@husc2.UUCP (wen) writes:
>
>Can someone tell me how the "Resident" command is used under 1.2 and what it
>does?  I missed betas 5-7, and I assume that I missed the docs to "Resident,"
>too.
>

The resident command allowed a reentrant, sharable program to use kept
in memory, and not reloaded for multiple invocations.  Unfortunately,
as it turns out, this seemed only to apply to many BCPL programs.

And there was no way to check whether a program was residentable or not
except try it, and see if it crashed.  So we put in on the Developer's
Tool disk, rather than the Workbench.  Some more thought is going
to have to be put into the concept before it sees the light of day again.

				andy finkel

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