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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 19:50:25 -0700
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen) writes:
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- >In article <2477.6641T698T2915@actcom.co.il> arielmag@actcom.co.il (Ariel Magnum) writes:
-
- > Uhh, if you had problems getting a bunch of Commodities to work together
- >and don't like that, DON'T switch platforms!!! Commodities are relatively
- >simple, compared to the Mac's extensions, since those things aren't even
- >supported by the OS. They say Copland will fix that, though. Windows95?
- >Good luck. What kind of system allows a badly written device driver to
- >corrupt all the others? (I had that problem.)
-
- I've heard everything now. The MacOS doesn't support extensions? Let me
- see, perusing through the Inside Mac CD-ROM I see sections explaining how
- to write extensions. Looking through my System Folder I see a folder
- called "Extensions" and plenty of Apple extensions in it. The only thing
- that Copland will add is a way to keep extensions from crashing the
- system. Right now, the AmigaOS and the MacOS are in the same boat with lack
- of memory protection.
-
- Extensions/inits have been the standard way to add drivers and change or add
- parts to the OS since System 6 or earlier.
-
-
- >> 2. Workbench Arexx port - For playing sounds (UDP,MSD), managing Commdities,
- >> launching programs , and managing public screens.
-
- > Hmm. I do agree that we need some sort of OS-supported way of managing
- >public screens, such as MUI's PSI, but with on-demand opening and closing, I
- >don't think the best way to implement that is through an ARexx port to
- >Workbench.
-
- You mean you can script the WorkBench on the oh so powerful Amiga. The Mac
- has been scriptable for at least two years.
-
-
- >> 5. Make Wb open on a RTG public screen.
-
- > It already does with CyberGraphX. If you mean it should directly support
- >more than 256 colors, that means a big re-write of Intuition.
-
- A modern OS still can't support more than 8-bit color. How pathetic.
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