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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> You are aware that re-entrancy is only an issue with multitasking,
> right?  Was this OS multitasking?

1. Re-entrancy is an issue anytime you have interrupts, which could be
thought of as multitasking but usually isn't.

2. I don't know if Valdocs was multitasking, but if it wasn't, maybe it
should have been.  People kept complaining about it being slow.  Maybe
it was slow because things that should have been done as background
tasks, instead made the UI wait.