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From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BCPL/AmigaDOS
Message-ID: <1920@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 19:28:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 19:28:36 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 18:16:18 EDT
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <461@inria.UUCP> rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) writes:
>Disassembling and/or printa-ing usual DOS commands such as run/execute/list/..
>I made the assumption that there is a bcpl-startup hidden somewhere.
>The latter would be the equivalent for lstartup.asm or astartup.asm well known
>in the C-programmers community.
BCPL programs get an entire BCPL environment when they start up, with
various things in various registers, their own backwards stack,
and access to a bunch of BCPL routines in the DOS.

This world is hidden from C and assembly programmers.  For the time
being, its best it were to remain so.  Having too many people playing
around with the internals of the DOS might prevent us from changing
it in any meaningful way.  One of our  goals is to change
the environment into a C style world, and continue the task of
'less BCPL' in the Amiga OS.

It would be *really* bad if suddenly a lot of programs started counting
on the BCPL world being there.

Sorry 'bout that folks...

		andy finkel

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