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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Keywords: Drag-and-drop, application start, programm changes
Message-ID: <120@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 91 10:04:33 GMT
References: <96@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun23.145847.16816@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <111@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun24.162803.5664@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing (ryptyde.cts.com)
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Responding to the following:

"In 2.0 new features have been added to the OS (I'm not sure) that allow
you to open windows that allow you to drop icons into them and have
applications notified.(AppWindows?)  Drag-an-drop launching of programs
have nothing to do with the App at all, it's something the OS does for
you."

Exactly. Gee, but apps didn't have to be rewritten to take advantage of
Drag-and-drop, did they? The point is, the more the OS does for apps, the
more advances can be made without programmers updating their code to take
advantage of it. This is exactly how it is with the OS causing an application
to open a document even though it's already open. In what way is it a kludge?
Another example:  User is using DiskDoubler, a simple utility that auto-
compresses (almost) all the files on your hard disk, then when they're opened,
they're automatically decompressed. Is this a kludge as well? Give me a break.
The ultimate example is MS-DOS. It has so little resources, does so little,
and is so lame-brained that multitasking had to be done at the chip level! 
(V86 mode)  But of course, Intel was more than willing to accomodate them
since that's their only (nearly) market.