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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Vote Result on Resource Tracking
Message-ID: <4000@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 17:00:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.4000
Posted: Mon Sep 21 17:00:22 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Sep-87 04:57:37 EDT
References: <1449@tao.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <1449@tao.UUCP> glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee) writes:
>Well, the odd vote still trickles in, but here is the result so far:
>	"Do you want Commodore to add resource tracking into the next release of
>	 the operating system, even to the exclusion of something else?"
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Strong "yes", as categorized by the presence of "!", such as "YES!!!":
>	11
>  "Yes":
>	7
>  Qualified "yes", "depends on what else gets excluded":
>	1
>  Other, such as "no":
>	0
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>So I guess it is unanimous.
>
	No, it isn't.  I tried mailing you a "no", but the mailer bounced
it.

	My response to the question, as phrased, is no.  Why?  Because I can
see no way to integrate robust resource tracking into the current OS
architecture without causing MAXINT headaches, as well as breaking nearly
everything in sight.

	Now then, I said, "as phrased."  What that means is that, yes, I'd
like to have resource tracking.  But not at the expense of breaking
everything else.

	What I would like to see is a *totally new* kickstart (2.0?).  I
want this Kickstart to have resource tracking, as well as a DOS free of
BPTR's, with a real fork() (or at least vfork()) call, OS support for an MMU
whether it's present or not, and a few other goodies.

	Naturally, this would represent a major software change for
everyone.  This actually can be viewed as an advantage, since all developers
will be aware that all the rules have changed.  When the new OS becomes
available, developer's products will take full advantage of them, and there
won't be any of this "lame duck" code hanging around in the OS ROMs.

	Of course, the probability of this actually happening is only
slightly higher than winning the Publisher's Clearing House Giveaway.

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