Mike Belshe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>... The use of globals all over the place is another.  MPE had
>abandoned globals 10 years ago, and now, for portability, we have to
>introduce them.  There are a lot of problems that arise in accomodating
>UNIX's globals. ...
 
Huh?  What globals?  The only two global variables that I can think of
are errno and environ, both of which are maintained by the C runtime on
Unix systems, not the operating system.
 
                                                        Ross Ridge
 
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