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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Easy of programming, Mac, Amiga
Message-ID: <781@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 12:29:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 25 12:29:22 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Sep-86 03:15:47 EDT
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> You missed a point of the original. The mac can do all that without
> recompiling. You cannot change topaz fonts (not under 1.1, anyways).
> You cannot change the requesters themselves automatically at all.

Only the Amiga Menu Editor (producing C code) requires it output to be
compiled; everything else happens at any time.  The Topaz fonts in 1.1 and
1.2 are "ROM" fonts, so you can't of course change them.  But you can load
a ROM font into FontEd and save it as a disk font.

> Also, I don't know about Lettice, but Manx has a m.lib math library that
> is compiled in; changing it to use the 68881 would mean re-compiling,
> not just changing mathieee.library

I'm not sure about Manx, but I imagine that the m.lib is merely a shell
into which the math library routines are moved.  The idea being that I
want C convention mathematic calls, not Amiga convention, so that I get
portability.  Of course, any language can open the math libraries directly
and get most of their benefits (these math libs contain a large variety
of floating point routines, including routines that a language can use
for its intrinsic *, /, +, -, ^, etc. operators.  If your language doesn't
support these, blame the language implementors, not the Amiga, when you
add your 68881).

> 		Michael Gersten
>       Views expressed here may not be those of the Computer Club, UCLA, or
>   anyone in their left OR right mind.  And that's the name o' that tune.
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