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- From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.1 for Amiga
- Message-ID: <8877@orbit.cts.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 09:05:02 GMT
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- Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.
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- barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >
- > With all of this bashing of the internals of the Mac OS in advocacy, I have
- >a question: why hasn't the equivelent of ResEdit 2.1 ever been written for the
- >Amiga?
-
- Because Resources are a byproduct of having WAY too much pointer redirection
- in your OS. Resources are what makes so many weird viruses possible on the
- Macintosh. Resources are what allow a 10 year old in a computer lab to
- totally screw up your programs. Resources are file based, and thus, when you
- need to access them, you are forced to do disk accesses which slow down your
- program. Resources are *NOT* my ideal environment, and i would probably leave
- the Amiga platform if they were implemented (at least without the option NOT
- to have them)
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