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Re: Codename G-OS
- Subject: Re: Codename G-OS
- From: dklugh@iwaynet.net
- Date: 1997/11/05
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations, comp.sys.amiga.programmer, comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.m6809, comp.sys.msx, comp.sys.oric, comp.sys.sinclair, comp.sys.tandy
- References: <62o7lh$lfk@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu>
On 1997-10-23 he110@cleveland.Freenet.Edu(BillR.Core) said:
>I didn't catch the whole thread here. Is G-OS going to be a
>universal GUI for all 8-bit computers? What existing GUI (if any)
Well the GUI would be the CP ("Command Processor"),not the OS.
>will it resemble? If it were up to me, I would design a GUI
>with the best features of GEM (Atari ST), Intuition (Amiga), and
>NeXTSTEP (NeXt Computer). Namely, the Object-oriented nature
>of NeXTSTEP, combined with the Multitasking and extensibility
>of Intuition, along with the straightforwardness of GEM.
I HATED the ST's interface.The Amiga's was much better.And you could choose not
to load it.And Amiga's workbench let you pass lower-case filenames (or
whatever) to programmes.GEM translates all letters to upper-case.Really anoying
with ZOO or other programmes that take UNIX-like options.
Intuition has nothing to do with multi-tasking.That's the job of exec.
(="Executive Multitasker",the core of the Amiga OS)
You're thinking of Windows on the PC.
I never understood the point of having the CP multi-task the computer.
>One feature absolutely needed for any future GUI would be
>some sort of Slip or PPP stack. This would enable a WWW browser,
>IRC client, and Mail client to be written, which would
>increase the ability of the individuals involved to
>communicate easily and quickly. These would be the 'killer apps'
>that any new OS needs to gain acceptance.
SLIP and PPP would be device handlers,not part of the OS.
And from what I hear,SLIP would be hard enough to implement.Forget about PPP.
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