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From: cg@myrias.UUCP (Chris Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Suggestion for 1.4
Message-ID: <611@myrias.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 19:43:03 GMT
References: <8806021714.AA12190@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: cg@suncg.UUCP (Chris Gray)
Organization: Myrias Research Corporation
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Oh yes, ideas for 1.4 (or 1.5):

How about some tooltypes in the CLI icon that will control the appearance of
the new CLI window opened? E.g. size, position, title, FgPen, BgPen, etc.?

How about a standard "intuiTools" library, containing a set of tools to help
use Intuition. E.g. a CBM standard file requester, a general palette editor
(I'll send you source to this if you want), routines to simplify menu
creation, etc. Make it the usual AmigaDOS shareable library.

How about a shareable library with IFF tools? Reader, writer, ILBM stuff, etc.
If the library can handle arbitrary streams, this could make clipboard support
a snap.

How about some simple way to put scroll arrows inside scroll bars?

And now the blue sky: I've heard a weak rumor that 1.4 will be able to use the
68851 MMU to provide protected address spaces. Any form of this, even if it's
not the default, would be great. I've heard people that can be classed as
"Unix fiends" say that they would prefer a protected AmigaDOS to UNIX on the
Amiga. I think that this IS doable. Lots of programs wouldn't work, either
because they reach outside their own address space, or because they don't use
MEMF_PUBLIC when they should. That's fine, let them run unprotected. A new
hunk type here could help, along with a little program to change hunk types to
the new "run me protected" forms. How much would an A2000 with the 68020 and
4Meg of RAM, an ethernet card, and the new hi-res monochrome monitor cost? If
running a protected AmigaDOS, I suspect it would outperform a Sun 3/50. Note
that no disk drive is needed, but I think a single floppy would be desireable.
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Chris Gray		Myrias Research, Edmonton	+1 403 428 1616
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