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From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Use of Resident
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 22:24:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 22:24:38 1987
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I recently read that non-reentrant programs can still be made resident as
long as you only attempt to run one copy at a time.

The fellow who mentioned it talked about doing this with his Modula-II
compiler, and it does indeed sound like a useful setup if you DO have enough
ram to keep a semi-large executable in memory but DON'T have enough to run
Sculpt 3D, Videoscape 3D and a compile/edit session all at the same time.

I know this isn't the favourite topic for the CBM people on the net, but is
this fact at least accurate? It would seem to be handy for advanced users
who would take adequate care. (On the wish list, if not a resident that
works well for everything, how about a DOS loader that looks at a resident
program's reference count and refuses to let you run it if it's non-zero
and the program is non-reentrant?).

John

PS: Killer .sig line, Bryce :-).
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To preserve deniability, I have not informed the University of this posting.
But if I had, they would have been 100% behind it, yessirree bob.
This posting has statements that are evasive, misleading, and just plain wrong.
But that is only because I love the UseNet with all my heart!