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- From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:03:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.203903.26699@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >You're quite wrong about that. The Windows solutions are extremely well
- >integrated, and have excellent keyboard, menu, and panel access to the
- >screens which they manage.
-
- Yes, but the PROGRAMS, lad! I'm sure you can GET to those screens,
- but the gymnastics you must perform to get your WINDOWS there must be
- hell? 2.0 and up programs will open on the default public screen,
- which just happens to, at first, be the Workbench. PS-aware programs
- can be given the name of a public screen to open on. If it is there,
- it opens on it. If not, it opens on the default public screen. If
- it's pre-2.0, or you want EVERYTHING somewhere else, you can set a
- "Shanghai" mode which pulls EVERYTHING to one window.
-
- >The window opens in the current screen, and then you can move it to a
- >different one. Unfortunately, your usage of the verb "shanghai" eludes me,
- >so I can't answer the rest of your questions.
-
- There ya go. :) No utilites exist to move already-opened windows on
- the Amiga--it simply opens on the one you want it to, the first time
- around.
-
- Shanghai: To kidnap. :)
-
- >If you're talking about extending real estate, it's still a half-baked,
- >if fast, solution, as screens are limited by Chip RAM. Put a high-color paint
- >program on a screen, and there goes half your Chip RAM. I know, I know,
- >"Why would you need more than that?"
-
- Well, assuming you're painting in 800x600x8, you'll eat about 460k of
- ram. The question comes in "how many do you need" style... You _DO_
- have two megs of chip, these days, you know.
-
- Greg
-
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