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From: kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IPC - A proposal
Message-ID: <24160@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 9 Mar 88 23:46:20 GMT
References: <8803081858.AA07450@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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In article <8803081858.AA07450@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> :>
> :>Oh, and give them a longword length if at all possible; I can see
> :>no reason to *limit* message length to 64K.  It's that kind of
> :>thinking that gave MSDOS 640K and TOS 40 folders.
> :
> 
> 	You guys don't think big enough!  Don't use an exec message
> structure, use an exec IOStdReq request structure (which is headed by
> an exec message structure).  Remember that somebody might want to 
> pass a HUGE buffer (say, a BitMap) which can certainly be more than
> 64K, and would want to pass it by reference.

Right.  BTW, ARexx allows this already.


/kim

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