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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> 
> Adding AST's would not be as easy as, for instance, replacing the
> environment space with logical name support.
> 

yeah, you need kernel support for this. each AST is like a letter
to the process. kernel has to allocate/de-allocate such a "letter"
dynamically.

If we can implement that, we are not far from real time unix.

				Ken