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From: mitchell@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - PA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 'Virtual Monitors'
Message-ID: <9264@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 9 Jan 90 15:59:51 GMT
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Reply-To: mitchell@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - PA)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1093@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
>>> Larry Rosenstein writes:
>>> Also your statement implies the program chooses the display mode for
>>> its windows...
>Well in a way tha is true, but programs allow the user to pick the resoltion
>and screen depth when applicable.  
>But basically you are correct, in some ways it is better to have the OS
>arbitrate the screen for you and all programs work in the resolution
>that the OS has chosen.

Once again, on the Amiga, you have the CHOICE of letting your application
run from its own custom screen, or the Workbench. And remember that the
screens co-exist. That is, the custom screen appears in front of, or behind,
or overlaps the other screens and the workbench. This is a hard concept to
grasp for Mac- and IBM- only people to fully grasp until you have seen it!
(There is no equivalent mode for the Mac & IBM Machines, unfortunatly.)


>-Roger

	-Mitchell