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Modula Keyb.

    11-May-87 23:02:43
Sb: #67259-Modula Keyb.
Fm: Vic Wagner 76046,3004
To: Jim Mason 71330,1206
James, you haven't really lived until you try to find a "bug" in a system whichexists ONLY because someone forgot to ask him/herself the question "What do I do if this code gets executed twice at once?" real-time re-entrant programs take a different discipline to write, and MSDOS and the C64 stuff is childs play by comparison. I know we would all prefer that our computer systems behaved "like God intended" (whatever it is we learned first) but the sad fact is, sometimes there are better new ways to do things. This is ,for example, why languages evolve and so forth. Just in case you're wondering, no I wouldn't have designed AmigaDOS the way it is. ….but it ain't a bad real-time multi-tasking OS, which no other home computer had when it was announced.