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- From: scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 16:07:21 GMT
- Organization: Micro Focus, Newbury UK
- Message-ID: <4h77bp$v82@hyperion.mfltd.co.uk>
- References: <4h2p87$nu@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
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- Keywords: future AmigaOS features
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- In article <4h2p87$nu@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
- fasten@weide.informatik.uni-bonn.de says...
- >
- >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).
-
- Keep arexx but I'd like to see Java in there as standard. I don't see the
- point in adding python as standard. Those that want to use python can add it.
- Arexx copes admirably with ipc.
-
-
- > - 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 ...)
-
- yuk! Everbody? you'd then have to also add MFC to it too and then get
- Microsoft to produce a C++ compiler. double yuk!
-
- >
- > - soft/hard links (don't tell me we already have links)
-
- we do ;-)
-
- It could be done better though.
-
- >
- > - 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).
-
- I've never quite worked out peoples objections to have loads of assigns.
- People that go out of there way to avoid the MUI: assign. Why?
-
- I'd like to see AssignManager in the OS though or expanded to something along
- the lines of the Windows Registry idea but easier to get at.
-
- >
- > - 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 :-)
-
- agreed. and also copy to multi paths with a query asking which one you mean.
-
-
- > - Workbench should be multi-threaded (and allow grid positioning
- > like ******* ** (no that's not "Clean Up")).
-
- agreed plus add auto positioning on window resize. Multi threaded is the main
- one for me and has annoyed me since v1.1!
-
- >
- > - low level game library (not really an OS feature)
-
- lowlevel.library goes some of the way and of course it's an OS feature!
-
- >
- > - MacOS binary compatibility (ShapeShifter)
-
- We have that already unless you're suggesting adding Shapeshifter in with the
- OS as standard. Personally I don't have any use for a Mac at all as I bet do
- the majority of Amiga owners. You'd have to have the hardware (memory) to
- support the Mac binaries and of course license the Mac roms. I'm not prepared
- to pay for that.
-
- I'd like to add in loads of the Commodities I use. Magic Menu, CycletoMenu,
- ClicktoFront etc. The 4.0 OS is already out there just in little bits ;-)
-
-
- --
- Shaun C. Murray | e-mail: scm@mfltd.co.uk
- Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, UK. | www: http://www.mfltd.co.uk/~scm/
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