Re: ASyncRun() doesn't work with pipe:xxx!

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 1990 05:04

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In article <20573.26e8ef86@psuecl.bitnet> d6b@psuecl.bitnet writes:
> In article <6528@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > Yes, I'd rather BCPL to
> > assembly. Why? Because that's where most of the bugs are.

> Wrong. Exec, the only major part of the OS to be written completely in
> assembly (aside from the device drivers) has proven to be the most bug-free,
> by far.

A single counterexample proves nothing. Let's consider the device drivers.
Even in 2.0 there are (reportedly) bugs in trackdisk.device.

What in the original O/S was neither (a) in Assembly, nor (b) ported from
Tripos?

> > Finally, ARP doesn't (or didn't, I haven't looked at the last couple of
> > releases) come with source. So I can't fix it.

> How many of Commodore's OS releases came with source?

(a) They're not as broken (in some cases by definition, since the bugs
    were things like incompatibilities).
(b) There wasn't an alternative.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: ASyncRun() doesn't work with pipe:xxx!
Message-ID: <6553@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 10 Sep 90 05:04:27 GMT
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