From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Latest /= Greatest (was: Asynchronous Transfer of Control)
Date: 1996/10/17
Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Oct17.130430.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DzFAMr.6DG@world.std.com
In article <DzFAMr.6DG@world.std.com>, bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:
> On Windows 95, the only way I can see to implement preemptive abort/ATC
> is for the compiler to insert polling code all over the program (maybe
> at every call, and at every backward jump?). If true, this is horrible
> -- operating systems of decades ago had proper support for this sort of
> thing, but the latest and greatest doesn't.
Um, I don't think most Ada folk universally subscribe to the theory that:
<latest> = <greatest>
There is no reason to suspect that the bulk of operating systems are
getting better and better. Consider that they are being sold to an
ever-widening circle of less-experienced consumers (including businesses).
Larry Kilgallen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-10-17 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-16 0:00 Asynchronous Transfer of Control James Squire
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-23 0:00 ` James Squire
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Ken Cowan
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Validation vs. Certification (was: Asynchronous Transfer of Control) Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Asynchronous Transfer of Control Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Pascal Ledru
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23 0:00 ` James Squire
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-29 0:00 ` m193884
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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