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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Transparent Asynchronous I/O.
Message-ID: <514@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 08:35:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.514
Posted: Tue Aug 18 08:35:53 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 09:26:42 EDT
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: UNIX AmigaDOS

Why doesn't AmigaDOS support transparent asynchronous writes? If you're
writing a small buffer to an I/O device, you shouldn't have to wait for
that I/O device to physically do the I/O. For instance, when you write (for
example) a short debugging message to a CON: device, and that window has it's
layers locked (say, you hit the spacebar), why should you have to wait for
that to go through? AmigaDOS should just verify that the I/O is possible
and buffer it up. Same thing with the printer and disk (I know the disk does
this... but it does it at a lower level).

How about it, C=Amiga? V1.3.
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-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)