Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bnr-public!schow
From: schow@bnr-public.uucp (Stanley Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Grrrr....BCPL.....
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Date: 6 May 89 05:40:57 GMT
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In article <6784@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article <14562@louie.udel.EDU>, wzg91@ttacs1.ttu.edu (BROWN, KEVIN) says:
>
>> The Amiga is the ONLY machine that I'm aware of that can't handle DOS calls 
>> from anywhere.  C'mon, guys, even MSDOS machines allow THAT!!!
>
>Wrong-a-mundo, buckaroo!  MS-DOS can't make DOS calls from tasks either.  
>Neither can UNIX.
>

Come to think of it, are there *any* systems that can "handle DOS call from
anywhere"? Like, opening a file in the scheduler, talk to the console in thee
middle of a  malloc, ...


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