Re: Why Amiga Gurus????

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From: Darin Johnson
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 1991 04:05

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In article <t22918.665454268@ursa> t22918@ursa (Matt Ranney  ) writes:
>Why can't Amiga's handle failed tasks like the Unix OS can?  I'd be perfectly
>happy to have my computer tell me that a task failed, and all it's allocated
>resources had been returned.

Herein lies the problem.  The OS does not keep track of allocated resources.
(sigh)  However!  the GOMF program (commercial, but old PD version on
a Fish disk) will attempt to recover resources from failed tasks, remove
the task, and let you continue on your way.  It doesn't do a perfect
job, but works most of the time, with only a little loss of memory.
-- 
Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
  - Political correctness is Turing undecidable.

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