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- From: jazz@netcom.com (David C. Navas)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Application Framework
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.080559.4750@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <heinz.04d0@edohwg.adsp.sub.org> <1992Nov11.165127.6906@oracle.us.oracle.com> <37209@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:05:59 GMT
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- In article <37209@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
- >[that dweeb] dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas) writes:
- >>[Some inanity about Golly Usecounts!]
-
- >>Seriously, can we get rastports or layers to have this?
-
- > Sure. Just send the time machine to 1200 Wilson Drive, and I'll be
- >happy to add usecounts to all the system structures, even if I have to break
- >into the Los Gatos offices. :-) It doesn't even have to be all that powerful,
- >8 years or so would do it.
-
- It's in the mail, but I sent it unregistered. It's my only prototype, think
- it'll make it? Let me know when it arrives and I'll expect it to already be
- done, though I understand I might have to wait until RSN-day for it to be
- actually released ;)
-
- [Actually, it's a very simple device. It only sends someone back in time
- two seconds, but it can recharge in one second. It makes time travel
- expensive in -experienced-time-, but it does work. We're still working on
- both long-term quik-freez technology that will transport you across time
- while in extended hibernation mode, AND a unit that might possibly do
- about four seconds. Running into a few quantum anamolies, which is
- interesting as we had expected the "grandfather" anamoly to perturb the
- virtual-particle-field stability which turned out to NOT be a problem at all.
- Email me for details as I'm getting a bit off topic (if not downright silly)
- here. ;)]
-
- Anyway, I think what I'm hoping for is that for all the -new- stuff Cmdre is
- doing (like, restructuring layers, rastports, gfx in general, dos recoding of
- various kinds, and all that other stuff [err..cough..cough..:)]) that you add
- this type of thing to -those- structures, and gradually introduce a more
- structured OS access than was in the original [mutant] OS....
-
- > Seriously, in many ways our hands are tied by 7+ year old designs and
- >the innumerable programs that would break if we changed them. I'd _love_ for
-
- There are blank fields in rastports :)
-
- >all system structures to be abstract data types, fully opaque, or _at least_
- >allocated only by system routines. Tain't so, though.
-
- The latter dos has grown, at least. What I find mysterious is why dos didn't
- go through the whole nine yards (for the new data structures, anyway).
-
- >To be or not to be = 0xff
-
- Sorry, SAS/C now complains about illegal negative constants in unsigned fields
- :)
-
- --
- David Navas jazz@netcom.com
- Co-author of: Web Data Acq. and Anal. dnavas@oracle.com
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