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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Porting DEC Ada Startlet to Windows
Date: 1 Mar 2006 08:32:21 -0600
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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.