Message passing

[William S. Frantz]

> My current
> (tentative) plan is to require that transmitted keys be contiguous in
> the key table, and have the caller specify the index of the first key
> plus a bitmask specifying which keys to send.

I've lived with only 16 readilly accessable keys (in KeyKOS), and I've
programmed in FORTH.  I can live with almost anything.  What I really
want (at least until I get it) is compiler support of keys as first
class objects.

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