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- Date: Tue, 31 May 94 21:37:13 +0100
- From: nj1@ukc.ac.uk
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Subject: Re: Colour.
- Precedence: bulk
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- On Tue, 31 May 1994, Annius Groenink wrote:
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- >
- > > > Which is another reason to have a MTOS app as the colour manager.
- > > >
- > > Not a MultiTOS app. Some of us can't stand the sluggishness of MultiTOS
- > > and therefore don't use it. I have a Falcon and I can't stand to use
- > > MultiTOS.
- >
- > OK, MTOS app := accessory, case single TOS. Which means we shouldn't
- > use dedicated MiNT/AES 4 stuff, except perhaps WINX extensions.
- >
-
- No! Please don't make it a desk accesory..... remember there are only six
- slots and most people have a hard enough time keeping down to six accs anyhow.
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- Anyway, an accesory implies an interface which implies using more memory than
- needs be for it's main task..... Again, a seperate proggy for configuring???
- >From what I can gather the actual manager itself would be quite a small
- program - please don't waste valuable memory by sticking a fancy front-end
- on it...... Maybe a TSR would be more suitable (don't know if it's possible).
- Remember: Out of sight, out of mind... This thing should blend seamlessley into
- GEM and the desktop - as if it weren't there......
-
- Neil.
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- Computer Science Student At Canterbury ####
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