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Re: Static limits (Re: AmigaDos directory knowledge + (new) BENCHMARK I DID)

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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1989 19:38
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In article <4659@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <8787@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>> Static limits are a bad thing, period.  MS-DOS even makes you tell it how
>> many files you'll allow to be open at once.  Apparently OS/2 suffers from
>> the same faulty thinking...
>
>Like the limit of 32 SigBits for an AmigaOS task? The Amiga isn't immune to
>the static limit problem.


Yes but sigbits can be shared between multiple event generators.

It is somewhat harder to share file handles between multiple files :-)



 Joe Porkka   porkka@frith.egr.msu.edu
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