Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!lth.se!newsuser From: d87sg@efd.lth.se (Svante Gellerstam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Bank switched CHIP RAM? (Re: 24 Bit Video ..) Message-ID: <1990Oct14.104618.17425@lth.se> Date: 14 Oct 90 10:46:18 GMT References: <1990Sep28.022138.19237@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1990Sep30.233751.3244@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Oct3.194556.7031@lth.se> <106878@convex.convex.com> <1990Oct8.211957.2528@lth.se> Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server) Reply-To: d87sg@efd.lth.se (Svante Gellerstam) Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Lines: 43 In article lron@easy.HIAM (Dwight Hubbard) writes: >[stuff deleted] >> >>think a more 'device' oriented solution is better - you send commands > >Yes, it would also make the system more flexible since it would >be possible to send commands to the device directly. Can you >see drawing a picture on the screen by typing: copy xxxpic to gfx: >It would also open up the possiblity of taking commands for the >graphics device from another device and piping them to the >local graphics device (It would be nice to run Amiga apps on >one machine and have the window for it on another) Just to clarify - a device in my text is primarily the 'gfx.device' part. But of course you could extend the useability by adding a GFX: dos level device. If the gfx.device provided output aswell for the position of the pointer or some such the window-on-another-Amiga would be a definite possibility. And since Intuition by then can have many screens connected to one system, you could play the 'move object across screens' that MAC people talk about. In an extension one could imagine a graphic clip-device. Say you had a network with three stations, two of them being A*000 (latest model :-) running latest version of PPage (17.0 or some such :-) using station # 3 as a graphical clip board. Then one could put pages that needed graphics on the third machine for collection from the second. That would greatly enhance productivity for many types of applications. Windowed operations over a modem link would also be possible. Mind boggles... We need more ideas. I hope some one at Commodore are working on this. If someone does - make it an open end system. >-Dwight Hubbard, |-Kaneohe, HI >-USENET: uunet.uu.net!easy!lron |-Genie: D.Hubbard1 > lron@easy.hiam |-GT-Power: 029/004 Regards, Svante -- 2:200/107.4 Svante Gellerstam (Fido) d87sg@efd.lth.se (InterNet) It's the african anteater ritual! -- Can't Buy Me Love