rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska) (09/17/90)
How does Minix deal with ROM routines? I'm thinking of AST's observation in "THE BOOK" that Minix can't use the ROM BIOS in a pc clone because the routines can't be interrupted. Apparent What happens in the case of MacMinix? Is the Toolbox unused? Bob Prohaska Physics Department University of California Irvine, CA 92717 USA
michel%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com (Michel Pollet) (09/17/90)
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In message of 17 Sep 90 02:37:45 GMT, rprohask said :
> What happens in the case of MacMinix? Is the Toolbox unused?
Mac Toolbox's calls are interruptibles..
(Have you ever tried BDFInit that made FULL multitasking under MF ?)
And to run under MF, Macminix HAVE TO use Mac toolbox, to handle
it's windows for example..
I think MacMinix will have sooner a non-blocking FS,
MAC/OS calls could be async by passing a completion routine in
the parameter block.
Question : If I order my MacMinix now.. what's the delay ??
Michel 'BusError' Pollet | "This place is reserved for future
michel%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com | use and is intentionaly left blank"archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert) (09/17/90)
rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska) writes: >I'm thinking of AST's observation in "THE BOOK" that Minix >can't use the ROM BIOS in a pc clone because the routines >can't be interrupted. >What happens in the case of MacMinix? Is the Toolbox unused? The toolbox is used, and it essentially has this same limitation, which is that the ROM can't be reentered. Any process that goes into the ROM won't get switched away from.