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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Task KILL for Amiga
Message-ID: <3319@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 23 Jan 89 12:46:39 GMT
References: <3716@crash.cts.com> <10908@s.ms.uky.edu> <5713@cbmvax.UUCP> <619@palladium.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <619@palladium.UUCP>, nw@palladium.UUCP (Neil Webber) writes:
> OK.  But saying "AmigaDOS doesn't track resources because it
> would be too expensive in memory or speed to do so" doesn't wash.

They're not saying that. What they're saying is "You can't add resource
tracking to AmigaDOS because it would be too expensive to do so without
breaking existing programs."
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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