CAOS
> "Multiprocessing: a CAOS Process structure is built on top of an Exec >Task
structure. CAOS was intended to keep a linked list containing blocks >of
resources used by the process – file control blocks, I/O blocks, message
>ports, libraries, memory usage, shared data, overlays and so on (This part >of
CAOS lagged behind the rest, which may explain why we don't have a >semblance
of it now)…
I have wondered why on unix systems, if a program crashes one simple shell
command will kill the program, its window etc. but on my Amiga I have to use
ARTM to kill the task, the window, perhaps the ARexx port etc. all separately.
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