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From: uphwk@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU (Bill Kinnersley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An Intuition.device?
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Date: 11 Sep 90 18:19:22 GMT
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[In "An Intuition.device?" <30021@nigel.ee.udel.edu>,
      BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) said:]
:
:   In some of his speeches, RJ Mical has told about how it was the intention
:of the original Amiga OS developers to make Intuition a device instead of
:a collection of routines (as it is now).  Had Intuition been made a 
:device, software development would have been a hundred times easier,
:because thing like opening screens and windows, creating menu items, and
:receiving mouse input from the user would be done by passing codes to
:the Intuition device and receiving information from it.  
:

(Inhale ................)


(Exhale.................)


(Pause to look out the window, and reflect that the sun is still shining,
the grass is green, and that Usenet postings like this are here and gone, 
and cannot affect the really important things in life...)


OK.

Marc, let me just say that making Intuition a library rather than a device
was probably one of the wisest decisions the original Amiga developers made.

I can't say any more without starting to FLA... (no, stop.)

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