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Annotation of MiNT/doc/problems, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: gulam's "mem" command will produce nonsensical results, since it looks
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                      3: at the GEMDOS memory list directly, and according to GEMDOS all the
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                      5: computer's memory is allocated to MINT.PRG. "mem" crashes under TOS 1.4
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                      7: anyways, so this problem is not new.
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                     11: Turtle reports an error in memory configuration; yet the configuration
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                     13: printed out looks perfectly fine. I don't know whether this one is
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                     15: turtle's fault or MiNT's. (Probably turtle's: the problem has also
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                     17: been reported on newer versions of TOS.)
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                     21: GFA Basic programs often (usually?) try to use memory they don't own.
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                     23: Needless to say, this can cause problems under MiNT, ranging from
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                     25: bus errors to a system crash.
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                     29: A lot of programs don't act very nicely in a multi-tasking environment.
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                     31: Programs that redefine the keyboard (eg gulam), run in supervisor mode,
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                     33: or steal interrupt vectors can cause problems. (Programs in supervisor mode
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                     35: tend to hog the processor, because MiNT won't pre-empt them -- this may
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                     37: be excessively cautious of MiNT, but it serves to avoid any problems with
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                     39: device drivers). If you're only running one program at a time under MiNT,
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                     41: these problems don't arise.
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