From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Porting DEC Ada Startlet to Windows
Date: 1 Mar 2006 08:32:21 -0600
Date: 2006-03-01T08:32:21-06:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: ud5h63eya.fsf@earthlink.net
In article <ud5h63eya.fsf@earthlink.net>, Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> writes:
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>
>> Starlet is the set of VMS system services.
>> You will have to rewrite your software to match the Windows operating
>> system. Good luck with ASTs.
>
> An AST is basically the same as an OVERLAPPED structure.
AST (in VMS) stands for Asynchronous System Trap, and is an execution
context in between a given mode (typically User) and the next inner
mode (typically Supervisor).
I don't know the word "OVERLAPPED", but I don't see what VMS ASTs
have to do with Structures of any sort.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-01 2:54 Porting DEC Ada Startlet to Windows stuart clark
2006-03-01 4:55 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-03-01 5:35 ` Matthew Heaney
2006-03-01 14:32 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2006-03-06 19:07 ` Charlie McCutcheon
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