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- From: muej@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Edmond Jordan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WB on multiple public screens?
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 02:14:08 GMT
- Organization: Educational Computing Network
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- mike Redrobe (mike@redrobe.demon.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : >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?
-
- : > - steve
-
- : erm..did you ever actually use such a thing?
-
- : 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
-
- There is such a thing and it was pretty cool. If you are interested I can
- dig into my pd disks for it. :)
-
-
- Edmond Jordan
- e-jordan@uiuc.edu
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