Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!seismo!rochester!udel!burdvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cadovax!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Things to do with devices Message-ID: <1183@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 13:08:22 EDT Article-I.D.: gryphon.1183 Posted: Tue Aug 11 13:08:22 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Aug-87 07:14:05 EDT References: <3866@garfield.UUCP> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 25 Keywords: devices handlers In article <3866@garfield.UUCP> john13@garfield.UUCP writes: >-- >Chuck McManis, in an article I read a couple of minutes ago, suggested the >need for a SYNTH: and a MIDI: device. I would like to suggest a more >generalized series of devices that people could construct, ones dealing with >any form of I/O that a lot of people would like to do on the Amiga. > >DRAW: - all the left-out functions like arcs, and the ones that require a lot > of rastport-twiddling could go in here. > >John >-- What a novel idea. Like Mac's quickdraw ? This idea appeals to me. If we kept the object list around, we could support PDL printers instead of just bitmapped ones. Actually, I *think* I know somebody already working on this. -- Richard Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {akgua, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the key in my ignition..."