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Ted Dennison wrote:
> Unix is actually the odball
> here, probably due to its C heritage.

And when you get right down to it, OS calls are never standard calls
unless your processor supports changing privledges as part of a "normal"
call. (Or unless your OS makes no such privledge distinction, of
course.)

I don't think I want to use a system trap for every function call.

-- 
Darren New / Senior MTS & Free Radical / Invisible Worlds Inc.
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          Only a WIMP puts wallpaper on his desktop.