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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: resource tracking
Keywords: Discipline, discipline
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Date: 18 Feb 90 18:41:23 GMT
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In article <5178@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <9704@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>> In article <5159@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
|| |On UNIX IPC is the exception. On the Amiga, IPC is the norm. Every system
|| |call is actually a message passed to another program.
|
|| Whoa! Come on, you know better than that! I can name a huge number of system
|| calls which do not end up send a message somewhere else. In fact, I have
|| a lot of difficulty identifying the calls which actually do send a message.
|| They're pretty rare.
|
|If I interpret you correctly, you've misinterpreted me. In UNIX, message
|passing is the exception. In the Amiga, "system calls" are all messages.
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^       ^^^
Well, on the Amiga ALL system calls are done through libraries. Name me
one system call in graphics.library that is a "message".  Or even take
exec.library  or dos.library.  Get your facts, Peter. Generalizing (i.e.
using attibutes like "all") without checking it out often results in
making dumb statements like the one above.

-- Marco
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