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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "modular" programs
Message-ID: <3406@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 9 Feb 89 04:58:35 GMT
References: <1188@hub.ucsb.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <1188@hub.ucsb.edu>, dougp@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes:
> In article <802@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>, duncan@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Shan D Duncan) writes...
> >Given the state of software to this date how difficult would it be to
> >design a "modular" type of terminal software?  Forgive me for the use

> This would be an ideal use for an overlay linker in which only certain
> parts of the code is loaded at any time.

That's very Turbo-Pascal of you.

On the Amiga the way to do this is just use multiple tasks. Pass messages
from the mainline to the protocol program. Look at MIDI.DEVICE for
inspiration.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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