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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




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