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- From: mike Redrobe <mike@redrobe.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: WB on multiple public screens?
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 96 16:13:38 GMT
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- >A long time ago, back in the deep, dark past of the Amiga, there was a
- >hack available to run Workbench on multiple screens at once. This was
- >quite useful since if you iconified an application, it wouldn't be
- >iconified to a different screen. Also, you had all the workbench
- >functions available in every screen instead of having to flip through
- >until you found the "real" workbench.
-
- >I think this thing, whatever it was, stopped working in OS3.0. Does
- >anyone know if something equivalent exists now?
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- > - steve
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- erm..did you ever actually use such a thing?
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- I'd love to try it ;)
-
- Anyway I think a wb rewrite is long overdue .at the mo its a bit of a weak
- point (multithreading anyone?)
-
- Mike
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