🚀 go-pugleaf

Steven Usher writes:

>I can see one or two major problems with TOS if you try to make
>it multitask.  The biggest problem is the file system. What
>happens when two tasks want to access the same file at the same
>time? What error message do you return? TOS cannot handle such
>things and there are no error returns which mean "in use".

    Don't ever say NEVER or CANNOT.  Just doesn't work when dealing
with computers.  Tim Purves' BBS versions 2.0 and up can and do
work well when the same file is accessed by two tasks on an ST.
    While a user is logged onto the ST, accessing a file (downloading),
another user, or even the SysOp can access or download the same file.
No crashes, no bombers.  It just works.

Larry Rymal in East Texas <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>