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In article <5156@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> Regular memory allocation calls probably happen ten thousand times more often
> than IPC stuff.  IPC is the exception...

On UNIX IPC is the exception. On the Amiga, IPC is the norm. Every system
call is actually a message passed to another program. All these messages have
to be tracked, and while it would have been possible to do this (say, by
passing a size with the message so the memory ownership could be handled
by the O/S), it wouldn't be easy. Think about what happens when a driver
replies to a task that's been killed.

Of course, the alternative is for the *task* to handle this, and that's really
no easier... but it's not such an unreasonable thing for Amiga to have left
out considering the circumstances.
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