On 22-Apr-01, Jeffrey E. Harris wrote:
>
> I know this is off topic, but I cannot resist. My original "Hello World"
> program was written in AmigaBasic making Exec calls to allocate memory,
> and Intuition calls to set up a screen, a window, and change the font for
> "Hello World". In case anyone is interested, I still have the source.
> Yes, AmigaBasic can make system calls, but it is a bit tricky and required
> manually computing offsets for C-data structures to either poke into
> memory (hence the Exec call), or arrays *grins*.
Ever so slightly more on topic is what I did in AMOS once... I opened
bsdsocket.library and communicated with TCP/IP. The only problem
was that AMOS's extreme (and extremely dumb) use of Forbid()/Permit()
just about completely prevented the TCP/IP stack from working properly.
//Círdan - no longer uses AMOS, and is therefore a happier person.
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Amiga user since '89, and damned proud of it too.
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