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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ban the Cloud!
Message-ID: <5330@well.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 88 10:24:10 GMT
References: <882@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Organization: The Blue Planet
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*&(Johnathan Dubman) suggest forking a new process for each drawer on the 
Workbench.

Actually, I was considering a design that would fork a new process for each
-icon-.  Whoa -- what the hell for, you ask?  For a vanilla
Workbench this would be major overkill, but it would provide great hooks for
expandability.  The Workbench environment would be a graphical representation
of an object oriented system, with the objects running concurently and passing
messages among themselves and the Workbench.

Such a system could be expanded by programmers adding new types of icons 
(objects, that is) such as the "suspended-process" type icon (to handle the
much saught after "iconification" of a process in a totally Workbench-
compatable way).  Since all the parts would be modular, someone could write
their own drawer window code to display files any way they liked.  Lots of
other neat things would be possible as well, and probably things I've never
even considered.  The idea appeals to me at some abstract level too, although
the programming would probably be a pain (at first).  Perhaps if I have a
few free weeks I'll build a prototype.
-- 
		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
		Action by HAVOC		(shf@Solar.Stanford.EDU)