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- From: fasten@weide.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 23:41:59 GMT
- Organization: University of Bonn, Germany
- Message-ID: <4h2p87$nu@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: weide.informatik.uni-bonn.de
- Keywords: future AmigaOS features
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- When the subject "OS features" is brought up everybody starts talking about
- memory protection and virtual memory. Let's they that will be taken care of.
-
- There are some other features I'd like to discuss:
-
- - ARexx was nice (and still is) but there's room for improvement.
- I'd like to see python (http://www.python.org) either as a
- second (official(!)) language or as the successor of ARexx.
- Python can even be used for applets (like Java).
-
- - source code win32 API compatibility!? (NO, I don't want it but everybody
- else is going this way, so it might be a good idea ...)
-
- - soft/hard links (don't tell me we already have links)
-
- - a hidden flag for assignments the user doesn't want to see (If
- program XY wants XY: assigned to its home I'm not interested).
-
- - it should also be possible to list multi-directory assignments
- like one directory (the toronto virtual filesystem for OS/2 implements
- this and unix-like mount points). (If devs: is assigned to
- sys:devs and local:devs "ls devs:network" should list the contents of
- sys:devs/network and local:devs/network :-)
-
- - Workbench should be multi-threaded (and allow grid positioning
- like ******* ** (no that's not "Clean Up")).
-
- - low level game library (not really an OS feature)
-
- - MacOS binary compatibility (ShapeShifter)
-
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- Hi, I'm not a signature virus. Why don't you just copy me into your signature?
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