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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What we (I) need in workbench as standard
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 18:32:21 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Dean Ridgway (ridgwad@PEAK.ORG) wrote:
- : If they are already available PD/Shareware then there is no need to make
- : them part of the OS. Those people that like that particular feature can
-
- No, but they are hacks, they do things at the expense of other things, some
- tradeoffs are livable but it is an undesirable situation to rely on. Workbench
- needs more support for the capabilities they want to implement so that they can
- be rewritten as support programs instead of hacks.
-
- : find and use it and those that don't are not forced to. A prime example
- : of this is the MUI discussions that took place a few months ago, some
- : people like it some don't. Why force those that don't to limit the
- : functionality of their machine by making it part of the OS?
-
- The surfer package is apparently going to use MUI for the browser and if what I
- read was correct it may be included with the os. Depressing.
-
- : The *BIG* thing that I'd like to see as part of the OS is a WorkBench
- : ARexx port. This is something that can't easily be added by a third
- : party and would add functionality to a wide variety of users.
-
- There is a solution to the workbench question, just make it more accessible and
- modular so that external programs can interact with it seamlessly. An ARexx
- port would be nice but I would think something more than that would be required
- to allow the functionality of all the hacks out there so that they could be
- rewritten and no longer be hacks.
-
- What is the status of ARexx anyway?
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
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