Re: Applying patches to MiNT source

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

sjg@phlem.ph.kcl.ac.uk writes:

> > Hmm... if I'm not very much mistaken, for most of us here the distinction
> > between MiNT and Unix is getting a bit blurred. The only real things I have
> > missing are sockets, real filesystem mounting and virtual memory, oh and a
> > non-blocking fork(). :-)
> > 
> > TOS utilities... GEM... what are they? :-)

 how true.  (well maybe if GEM wouldn't be so dead sloow and stop
wasting cycles polling the mouse...)

> > 
> One more thing - a threaded filesystem interface, so HD activity
> doesn't slow the machine to a crawl (relative to how it performs
> normally).

 and disk drivers that know readv/writev and don't stop everything
while busy-waiting for DMA...

 :-)
	Juergen
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