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- From: dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware
- Message-ID: <37174@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:39:58 GMT
- References: <37138@cbmvax.commodore.com> <Bxxr22.EoA@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Reply-To: dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson)
- Organization: Commodore Engineering
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- In article <Bxxr22.EoA@acsu.buffalo.edu> jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jeff Murphy) writes:
- >In article <37138@cbmvax.commodore.com> spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) writes:
- >>In article <Bxvrpv.31E@acsu.buffalo.edu> jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jeff Murphy) writes:
- >>I am no UNIX expert, but is there a reason why the display side of a UNIX port
- >>could not sit on top of the graphics.library? After all, to bring up a UNIX
- >>screen would involve duplicating the work that has already gone into the A4000
- >>kickstart.
- >
- > Hmm. At best that would most likely be a kludge, since the graphics
- >library would have no way of knowing that it was working in a multi-user
- >environment and would therefore not know how to behave.
-
- What? Multi-user graphics, that'll be weird. Maybe the console should only
- allow one login since it only has one screen and one keyboard and at most two
- mice. If a remote user wants graphics, he'll have to use something like X,
- which, if his console is an Amiga, runs fine with graphics.library.
-
- >--
- >jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu cit network installation and repair
- >opnsmurf@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu standard disclaimers apply. sunyab
-
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- Dale Larson, Software Engineer | Anyone who believes that what I say or do
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