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Re: GEMDOS re-entrancy



> The AES does not make direct jumps into the GEMDOS in ROM, it goes via
> trap vector, so it will first run through the MiNT kernel. But for disk
> accesses, it will be blocked anyway, as there is no way to run two trans-
> fers simultaniously :)

Well, at least on a TT you could do transfers on SCSI and ACSI/Floppy at 
the same time, as there is two separate DMA controllers for this.
(+ of course the DMA controller for the SCC chip, which could be used for 
 NFS :)

But, in general - you are right :-)

Erling