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From: lbruck@eneevax.UUCP (Lewis S.Bruck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP commands--How do you make them so small?
Keywords: ARP AmigaDOS Replacement Project
Message-ID: <1702@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 88 20:24:37 GMT
References: <441@jc3b21.UUCP> <a1pLGe6ELR1010JQCv2@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <444@jc3b21.UUCP>
Reply-To: lbruck@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Lewis S.Bruck)
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Organization: Elec. Eng. Dept., U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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In article <444@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
>     I thought the idea behind ARP was to rewrite AmigaDOS in C.  Are you
>sure everything is done in assembler?  Was that a departure from the
>original intention or did I just misunderstand?

I think the intention was to get the commands away from BCPL (the native language of TRIPOS, on which AmigaDOS was based).  This allowed better integration
into the C-based environment of the Amiga (in terms of data structures and
data types (bye bye BPTRs).  Another goal was standardizing the syntax of
the commands and giving a more useful wildcard implementation.

Lewis Bruck
lbruck@eneevax.umd.edu

Official? Who said anything ahbout official...