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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
Message-ID: <813@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 91 07:29:46 GMT
References: <1991Jan27.105252.7019@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991Jan27.135843.2056@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <7663@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <7663@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1991Jan27.135843.2056@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>   Nobody wants to know about assign?!?!? I SURE DO! it is easy to
>> add an assign to the system. "1> assign name: path/file" How much
>> easier can it get?
>
>A workbench assign tool would be nice. Sounds like a good PD program now
>there's a decent "system" interface.

(It's obviously the day of BIG WB menus :-)
So you want to click on a certain drawer (or file) and then invoke
a menu item (in the "Icons" WB menu) named perhaps "Assign" and then
a string requester opens where you can assign a name to this? Is this
what you want? Like with that other posting I replied today already,
this sounds not at all difficult. But is it really needed?

>>   AmigaDOS as it is now will never have memory protection. AmigaDOS is
>> fast because it uses shared memory.
>
>Shared memory and memory protection are not entirely opposed concepts. You
>could certainly get *more* protection than you have now.

But one can argue whether "half" memory protection would be worth so
much more than "no".

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