Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!fred
From: fred@maccs.McMaster.CA (Fred Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Grrrr....BCPL.....
Message-ID: <2618@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 6 May 89 05:06:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.2618
References: <14562@louie.udel.EDU> <6784@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: fred@maccs.UUCP (Fred Whiteside)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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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.
>
>> 				Kevin Brown
>-- 
>Dave Haynie  "The 32 Bit Guy"     Commodore-Amiga  "The Crew That Never Rests"

  Ummm, just what are you calling tasks in MS-DOS, Dave? Child processes can
  certainly make DOS calls, but that isn't exactly earth-shattering...

  MS-DOS is *not* re-entrant, so that all of those cute pseudo-multi-tasking
  hacks are forced into some of the most entertaining gyrations imaginable
  simply to write a disk block or close a file ....

  The suggestion that MS-DOS can handle DOS calls from
  "anywhere" shows that the author either knows little about MS-DOS or
  considers anywhere to be an application program that owns the machine. 
  There are other cases, but the original comment is definitely over-stated.

fred whiteside "IGotsTaProgramDemTingsItsMuhJob"