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- From: irmen@cs.vu.nl (Irmen de Jong)
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:35:18 GMT
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- On 28 Feb 1996 23:41:59 GMT Bernhard Fastenrath (fasten@weide.informatik.uni-bonn.de) (Bernhard Fastenrath) wrote:
- : 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).
-
- Check out my port of Python 1.3. It's on Aminet.
-
-
- : - 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 ...)
-
- You'll jump in the pool if everybody else jumps in the pool also? Hmm.
-
-
- : - soft/hard links (don't tell me we already have links)
-
- We already have links. Soft links are not very well supported yet, I agree.
-
-
- : - 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).
-
- We already have this! Standard option to Assign: DEFER.
-
- : - 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 :-)
-
- Isn't this done already by 'list'?? Not sure though.
-
-
- : - 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)
-
- ??? lowlevel.library? Got it already. RTG.library? On it's way.
- graphics.library? Will be fast enough on the PowerAmiga with graphicsboard.
-
-
- : - MacOS binary compatibility (ShapeShifter)
-
- ??? Impossible if you don't emulate the Mac OS also.
-
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- : --
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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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