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From: perry@atux01.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Vote Result on Resource Tracking
Message-ID: <537@atux01.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 12:52:19 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 12:52:19 1987
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Summary: Resource Tracking (is a bogus concession to bogus programmers)

Resource tracking on the Amiga is a bogus concession to bogus programmers.
The Amiga is the way it is.  Learn to live with it. Adding resource track-
ing would be a major hack and  slash  job  and certainly never produce any
thing any good (or backwardly compatible).

A much more effective  proposal  would  be  along  the lines of what Chuck
(mcmannis) suggested. A standard set of Remote Control Message primitives.
This has the benefit of being implemented completely outside the operating
system which means  all  code  will continue to work with or with out this
facility.

This remote  control  capability  is trivial to implement, I've done it in
FaccII. Forget  this  resource  tracking nonsense. Let's get on with some-
thing more feasible, more flexible,  and certainly more elegant instead of
trying to wedge all sorts of crap  into the o.s. to help lazy programmers.

(Chuck, I will participate  in  a Remote Control Standards Committee, call
me to arrange it (201) 563-0529))

Perry Kivolowitz - ASDG Incorporated - (201) 563-0529