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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 10 Mar 96 17:29:17 +0000
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- Hi, Andreas Mixich , on 07-Mar-96 08:32:53 you scribbled....
- >sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz wrote about "Re: AmigaOS 4.x features" on "06-Mar-1996
- >01:33:23" at zer.COMP.SYS.AMIGA.MISC:
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- >> : There are some other features I'd like to discuss:
- >> I think the one that really needs to go in is network support. Include
- >> TCP/IP like unix has.
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- >Yep.
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- I think everyone agrees on this, and AT may have taken steps towards this
- already (surfer pack)
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- >Add an ARexx port to every window, a minimum ARexx port to any app (such as
- >with MUI, but _NOT_ MUI ;-)).
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- MUI has lots of excellent ideas, just implemention doesnt "feel" right.
-
- >What I'd like to see is a global sort of server, that takes messages from
- >applications and executes macros or similare. Imagine:
- >No application has its own save/load mehtods. They just signal the OS:
- >SAVE mydata AS JPEG. So the data would be saved as JPEG using a datatype,
- <SNIP>
-
- Yeah I think they missed an oportunity in wb3/datatypes for this....
-
- BTW has anyone done a patch to load datatypes (picture) into any iff
- supporting app ( a bit like autopeg)?
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- Datatypes hsould also be streamed...
-
-
- >One could have such a desktop for some sound application, for example. On
- >this desktop there are different disk icons, where he has its samples and
- >midi files or whatever. On the same window there is the sampler, a tracker,
- >a sequencer open, all can exchange data by Drag&Drop. The whole desktop
- >could be iconified. On another desktop he could have a 24 bit screen with
- >gfx apps, while the WB is running in 8 bit and the music screen in 4 or so.
-
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- Another thing looks as though it was meant to be done..
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- You can put wb into a normal window (non-backdrop) but not open another wb
- window ;)
-
- >--
- >Ciao, Andreas
- >Internet: humpty@tomate.tng.oche.de
- >FIDO : 2:244/1544.14
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- >+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
- >Measure twice because you can only cut once.
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- Mike
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