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From: mitchell@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - PA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 'Virtual Monitors'
Message-ID: <9432@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Jan 90 07:08:55 GMT
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Reply-To: mitchell@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - PA)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2377@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> datta@cs-sun-fsb.UUCP (Slarti) writes:
>In article <9383@cbmvax.commodore.com> mitchell@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - PA) writes:
>>1) To keep your Workbench from becomming cluttered- If every application
>>   opened up its 'work area' on Workbench (Desktop to you Mac types),
>>   you would wind up with alot of unnecessary clutter (remember, this is a
>>   multitasking machine, and you could potentially have lots of programs 
>>   running!
>>
>There are two versions of MultiFinder.  The developers version adds the
>"put away" option that hides all windows belonging to an application and puts
>it in the background, yielding a similar effect.  Hopefully, newer versions
>of the standard MultiFinder (or Sys 7) will have this feature.
>
>>2) To allow the application to take on its own color palette and resolution
>>   modes and number of bit-planes, so as to not interfere with other programs.
>>
>The palette manager and color manager take care of this in a far better
>fashion.  Each window can have it's own palette.  The palette of the
>foreground window is active, and the OS automaticially renders the background
>windows as well as possible with the current palette.  Macs only work in
>HIGH resolution mode.

I fail to see how this is 'far better'. On the Amiga, I can drag a screen down
mid-way to see the one behind it, so that both are visible simultaneously,
AND USING THEIR OWN COLOR PALETTE SIMULTANEOUSLY!!!

Also, since moving a screen to front is extremely fast, I can do double-
buffering of screens, by rendering to the hidden screen, poping it to front
during the vertical retrace (WaitTOF()), render on the now out-of-sight
screen, pop that to front, etc. to acheive full-screen smooth animation.
Now I KNOW you can't do that with windows! TOO SLOW! :-)

>All an application has to do to more or less emulate the Amiga's screen
>environment is open up a full screen sized window and hide it when sent into
>the background.

It's not the same, not by a long shot. And you forget- I can have multiple
windows within one screen! Can you have windows within windows on the Mac?

Oh yes, I forgot- The Amiga can even emulate a Mac if I ever want it to!
(As well as IBM) I like having the best of 3 worlds. 3 in 1, that is!

	Mitchell
	mitchell@cbmvax.UUCP
	Having you cake and...