John Foust skrev:
>At 12:39 AM 7/27/01 -0400, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
>>Well, AmigaDOS has processes, threads, semaphores, message ports,
>>messages, preemptive multitasking, multiple file systems and long file names
>>(on such filesystems that support that). It's not multi-user so it lacks
>>file permissions but it's a single user OS anyway. What else do you need?
>Well, we once wanted memory protection, but seeing that all
>the above was based heavily on the fact that any process could poke
>into any other memory, it was tough. :-)
AmigaOS is a zero-copy system, which makes it quite fast. Inter-process
communications are simply done by passing pointers instead of copying the
required data. Efficient but hardly secure. =)
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Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 21:24:49 BST