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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Hooks into the AmigaOS vs. The MacWay of doing it all yourself (Was Re:<something quite similar to the above...>)
Keywords: AmigaOS MacOS
Message-ID: <7691@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 3 Feb 91 01:05:31 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.075446.716@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <7658@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Feb1.075535.369@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Feb1.075535.369@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie) writes:
>   For example, I now have probably 5 routines sitting on GetNextEvent
> before it actually gets to the application program...  among them are
> macro programs, screen clippers, clocks in the menu bar, easy
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> launching utilities..

On the Amiga you just run a clock program with a small window over the
menu bar. Why add to the load of handling events? Just run a program that
sleeps for 1 second at a time, taking up virtually no CPU time.

On AmigaOS 2.0 a formerly freely redistributable program called "Commodities
Exchange" has been included with the system. This program manages input
handlers better, further reducing their overhead. Efficiency is still a
concern at Commodore, unlike some companies.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.