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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Team AMIGA Wish List (LONG)
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 18:40:46 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >paulken4@afrodite.kih.no wrote about "Re: Team AMIGA Wish List (LONG)" on
- >"21-Mar-1996 17:53:10" at zer.COMP.SYS.AMIGA.PROGRAMMER:
-
- {much deleted]
-
- >And so on and so on......
- >
- >You seem still not to be through, that we are talking of wishes for a *NEW*
- >operating system ? This means, that such things like ToolsDaemon etc.
- >possibly won't work, as in the docs of it this is told. It's a HACK.
- >
- >And most things, which are programmed and available right now, are done,
- >because the system software lacks of it. SO WHY NOT INCLUDE THIS INTO THE
- >NEW SYSTEM SOFTWARE ????? Sorry for shouting, but I have read such posts
- >that often now, that I am asking myself why everybody is so scared to see a
- >new OS with new features *built-in*, so I want anyone to hear it now. Do
- >you think that would hurt to have those things come with the OS ? Why
- >making a commodity, that eats up memory for creating additional menus, if
- >the OS could come with a full user-interface to all menus ?
- >
- >Why forcing the user to buy AFS or PFS (costs extra) when the OS could come
- >with a decent MultiUser-VeryFast filesystem ?
- >
- >Wondering.....
-
- Andreas ... Team AMIGA had two seperate ideas when doing this list. The
- first was it would be nice to have many of these things "built-in" to the
- OS. Then, reality set in concerning timing, etc. Maybe there is no time to
- build-in such things? If not (and many of these are currently available
- anyway), why not create a 'real' Extra's diskette (or cd rom) that can sell
- with or in addition to the new OS that will contain many of these
- pd/shareware programs. The programmer's would earn their royalties with
- each sale (maybe helping bring a few back?), the new users would be able to
- see right out of the box what their computer can be spruced up to do, and
- the older users who may or may not wish to use the included programs will
- always have that option of 'user configurability'.
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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