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From: ripley@netmbx.UUCP (Hans-Ch. Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Room for change
Message-ID: <1238@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 22:39:13 GMT
References: <8143@cup.portal.com> <1123@atari.UUCP> <527@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Reply-To: ripley@netmbx.UUCP (Hans-Ch. Eckert)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <527@nikhefh.hep.nl> gert@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gert Poletiek) writes:
=>Now if you need more room in the ROMs how about this:
=>
=>- Kick the desktop and AES resources out of the rom
=>- same goes for the bios keyboard translation tables
=>- Even kick out the desktop program itself.
=>And supply these on disk, to be read at boot time.
=>
=>3. The desktop resources can be modified to everybodies liking
=>
=>4. And it provides a way to easily upgrade the desktop.
=>   (or users can even directly replace it with a command line shell, if they
=>   like that better)
=>
=>I'm sure everybody can think of additional advantages...
=>
=>
=>Gert Poletiek

Probably, it'll be enuf to push all Resource-Code from the Desktop out onto
Disk (perhaps DESKTOP.RSC) and loaded at boottime.
I DISLIKE the PC/GEM-behaviour of loading DESKTOP.APP every time after a
program has finished and am glad not to have to wait until the desktop is 
active again after a ST-program terminates !

Having the possibility of patching the desktops' resources makes the machine
more personally, I suppose (Just like Icon-Patchers, DESKEDIT.ACC e.g. :-)

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