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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 06 Mar 96 23:20:58 +0000
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- Hi, Stephen B Hodge , on 06-Mar-96 01:33:23 you scribbled....
- >Bernhard Fastenrath (fasten@weide.informatik.uni-bonn.de) 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.
-
- >: - Workbench should be multi-threaded (and allow grid positioning
- >: like ******* ** (no that's not "Clean Up")).
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- >: - low level game library (not really an OS feature)
- >No. Games should go through the OS. The power to make this viable should be
- >available with PPC, so a special mechanism for games should not be required.
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- Games should go through the OS..but it should be made easy to do so...
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- >: - MacOS binary compatibility (ShapeShifter)
- >No. On a PPC machine, if you want to run mac binaries, you buy MacOS, if you
- >want to run Windoze you buy WindowsNT, if you want unix you buy one of
- >several flavours of unix available. We want an Amiga so we should stick to an
- >Amiga.
-
- Ah but that would mean a reboot at least to use the different OS.
- Say you're doing some graphics stuff on the Amiga , and want to run it thorugh
- photoshop - just run shapshifter( or equivilent) and quit it when you're
- done... OK this will always need an emulator of some sort, but this option
- should be available..
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- >I think that intuition needs an overhaul. There are many commodity functions
- >that should be included directly, such as cycle to menu, magic menus, conclip
- >etc.
-
- Agreed
-
- >Clipboard support should be improved. We have a nice multitasking OS, but at
- >the moment information exchange between programs is not easy in many cases.
-
- There's already provision in datatypes...but its poorly (if at all) documented
- at the mo (and thats assuming you can actually GET the 3.1 stuff....)
-
- >Graphics needs to be enhanced, including RTG and a 3D library (like SGIs
- >have).
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- PCI slot and úD courtesy (sp?) of cybergfx4.0
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- Mike
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