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From: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Wish List
Message-ID: <1219@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Sat, 13-Jun-87 00:19:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1219
Posted: Sat Jun 13 00:19:45 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 20:09:44 EDT
References: <150@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
Lines: 19
Keywords: AmigaDOS speed

In article <150@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) writes:
[ excerpts from wish list: ]

>4) A new CON: device that uses a simple-refresh window, keeps track of 24
>lines by 80 columns of text, and has scroll bars to pan a full size screen
>in the window. I have implemented part of this as an excersize, and it's
>way faster and more memory efficient than smart-refresh ones.

This is a good idea, and it would be trivial to throw in a feature of Sun's
window system -- allow use of the vertical scroll bar to go back into previous
pages of text that have scrolled off.

>8) There should be an unettended mode, where all requestors automatically
>return failure. This would allow the machine to reliably run a BBS or operate
>as a SCADA master-station.

This is not only already available, it is done on a per-process basis... the
pr_WindowPtr (I think it's called) determines which window/screen (if any)
the requester appears in.  If it's zero, all errors are returned to the caller.