Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hooks and ladders Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 89 05:48:58 GMT References: <4299@nigel.udel.EDU> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 42 In article <4299@nigel.udel.EDU> acm131@eric.ccs.northeastern.edu (Craig Scott Lennox) writes: > to know is: Does AmigaDOS, Intuition and the Workbench have the same > kind of open architecture and design hooks as their beloved Mac OS? Any system routine can be replaced by your own. There are defined ways to safely do this. (And since you are multitasking, this "accepted standard" includes locking other tasks out so that they don't call your routine while you replace it). > Will they be able to hack all sorts of neat patches like Windowshade, > Black Box, and BackDrop into the Workbench? Will they be able to have WindowShade and BackDrop have similar programs (much faster) on The Amiga. I don't know what Black Box is. > their 16 zillion fonts and DA's around for calling up at moment's whim? Fonts are cached in memory and unused ones get flushed from memory when your are low. DA's? What's that? :-) In a multitasking OS everything is like a DA, only better. > Can you cut and paste between different windows of different applications Yes, but it's not generally supported. In 1.4 "it's in there"! > on the Amiga as easily as on the Mac? Can you store digitised graphics > and sounds as resources and use them in programs as you can on the Mac? Yes. No "resources" system like on the Mac, but something similar. 1.4 makes this all smoother. > Craig. Corrections gladly accepted, -Tom -- Tom Limoncelli -- limonce@pilot.njin.net Standard Disclaimer CM 1060 -- tlimonce@drunivac.bitnet P O Box 802 -- ...!rutgers!njin!drew!tlimonce Madison, NJ 07940 -- 201-408-5389 "I do not like green eggs and spam, I do not like them, Sam I am!"