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Martin Bazley |
Message #117736, posted by swirlythingy at 15:52, 14/5/2011, in reply to message #117731 |
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FWIW, the only way to issue a command manually from a multitasking environment (one which has previously called Wimp_Initialise) that I am aware of is the Task Manager's "New task" submenu. No, there is also the *WimpTask command...
I wasn't aware of that, so my point stands. 
(SWIs don't count.) |
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James Lampard |
Message #117737, posted by Lampi at 17:22, 14/5/2011, in reply to message #117736 |
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(SWIs don't count.) Does that include OS_CLI?  |
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Bryan Hogan |
Message #117750, posted by helpful at 15:54, 16/5/2011, in reply to message #117732 |
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Probably because on every other OS I can think of it works I don't think it worked on Windows3.1, which is of a similar vintage to RISC OS!
Also similar in being a GUI on top of a single tasking OS.
But RISC OS is very different by being a decent GUI rather than one with its UI based on the single tasking DOSShell!
Reminder: C compiler discussions at ROUGOL tonight:
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[Edited by helpful at 17:03, 16/5/2011] |
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Rob Kendrick |
Message #117751, posted by nunfetishist at 16:57, 16/5/2011, in reply to message #117750 |
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Probably because on every other OS I can think of it works I don't think it worked on Windows3.1, which is of a similar vintage to RISC OS!
I seem to recall that it did, but even if we're comparing 1993/4/5 era Windows (in which this certainly worked), that's still RiscPC era RISC OS.Also similar in being a GUI on top of a single tasking OS.
But RISC OS is very different by being a decent GUI rather than one with its UI based on the single tasking DOSShell! Yeah, RISC OS is based on the single tasking GUI shell for MOS, Arthur! |
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Eric Rucker |
Message #117752, posted by bhtooefr at 20:06, 16/5/2011, in reply to message #117751 |
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IIRC, that worked because all Windows apps had a stub that checked for Windows being running, and would call Windows to launch if it was present, and then return to the shell.
If it wasn't present, it would give an error about needing Windows. |
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