Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:29:19 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: burgers and thunks ??? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010104132546.051b1c00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010104115851.A52708@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010103211044.04906e60@localhost> <20010103181718.B41405@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010103211044.04906e60@localhost>
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At 04:58 AM 1/4/2001, j mckitrick wrote: >That's it, Brett! I think it might have been you that mentioned it anyway. >So, what exactly is it? The programming term, not the restaurant. :) Answered very well by Nik elsewhere in this thread. Burgermaster is a "take out" restaurant. The "Burgermaster" segment in Windows allowed you to "check out" a Windows data structure via a mutex semaphore, lock it down in memory so it didn't move, and then manipulate it. They stopped needing it when they went from Mac-like heap handles to "real" VM in Win32, but it still exists in their 16-bit Windows emulation. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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