From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 4 12:30:52 2001 From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 12:30:50 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0747E37B698 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 12:30:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29211; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:29:28 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010104132546.051b1c00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:29:19 -0700 To: j mckitrick From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: burgers and thunks ??? Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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