Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Mike Farren Tutorial. Message-ID: <46675@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 4 Apr 91 13:34:34 GMT References: <20198@cbmvax.commodore.com> <18ead851.ARN0f31@icoast.UUCP> <1991Apr2.002244.11549@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <18ec731b.ARN0f5b@icoast.UUCP> <2194@pdxgate.UUCP> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 29 In article <2194@pdxgate.UUCP> bairds@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Shawn L. Baird) writes: >I think he was talking about the OS routine to close the Workbench screen. >There is only one problem. An application can not count on the ability of >the Workbench screen to be closed. If a CLI or other program is running on >the workbench (that is, besides workbench itself) the Workbench screen will >not close. Now granted, you could tell the user to go remove any offending >programs, but is this really what you want to sell to a consumer? Your >sales would probably drop because of the hassle everyone would have to go >to just to run the damned thing. You'd rather sell the consumer a program that wipes out the OS than one that required the user to shut down a program or two before running, but allowed them to return to a functioning OS after the game had ended (w/o rebooting)? Somehow I'd figure that most programs that were left running (other than VirusX or the like) were there getting _work_ done. Killing the OS can have catastrophic results in such a case. Most users won't think about such a thing until they get bitten... I wonder whose sales would drop because their OS-killing program stopped some other program that happened to be in the middle of writing to a disk. At least if you restore the OS you have a better chance of getting through unscathed. -- Greg Harp |"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two |lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|running over the same ground. What have we found? s609@cs.utexas.edu |The same old fears. Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd