Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!steveb
From: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: dos.library
Keywords: dos.library, BCPL
Message-ID: <5264@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 15:16:07 GMT
References: <1044@amnesix.liu.se>
Reply-To: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 22

In article <1044@amnesix.liu.se> dat01@amnesix.liu.se (Dat) writes:
>Don't you think it's time to throw away AmigaDOS?
>
>How about a nice no-BCPL dos in ROM? Sound nice, eh?
>But what about compatibility? Maybe there is a solution.
>
>  Implement the old 'dos.library' as a disk-based library.
>  When an old program accesses this dos, it's really using
>  the new dos but with the yuccy BCPL-structures built
>  on top of the new clean C-structures provided by the new
>  dos.
>
>  Programs using the new dos (ADOS? CAOS?) would never have
>  to worry about BCPL.
>
>Ok, where did I go wrong? Is it possible? Please...
>

But what about the contents of DOS packets ?  Or how about the 'in-memory'
structures that everyone happily scans ?  Sheesh, I wish we could do 2.0 !

	Steve