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From: klute%trillian.irb@unido.uucp (Rainer Klute)
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Subject: TOS enhancements (Was: Re: Pexec Cookbook, and pseudolegal...)
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Date: 3 Apr 89 07:46:14 GMT
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In article <1423@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
>  Don't do illegal stuff with your software, please.  We are no longer
>constrained to strict software compatibility in future TOS revisions,
>and I, for one, intend to take advantage of that fact.  This means that
>I will be implementing enhancements which will almost certainly break
>software that either a) didn't follow the rules in the first place, or
>b) was built on bad assumptions about the internal workings of TOS.

This sounds very interesting and raises some questions what
could be meant with those "enhancements":

- A clean Malloc?
- Multitasking?
- UNIX functionality :-)?
- Cray compatibility :-)?

Please shed some more light on the plans you have!

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