| Posted on 05-May-2000 12:17 GMT by Christian Kemp | 36 comments
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Did anybody on here hear about AtheOS, a free operating system for the Intel architecture released under the GPL license? I've been looking at the screenshots and see some familiarities...
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| Posted by Kurt Skauen on 04-May-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (Anbjorn Myren):
:As you say, its probably far away from how MUI works, but there are still
:similarities:
Sure, just about all OS's with a GUI have similarities.
:- Comparing MUI-Prefs to ScreenPrefs, you can use MUIprefs to define public
: screens and their different depths and resolutions.
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:- If maybe not as implemented with the F-keys, but there is no problem with
: opening a MUI program on one screen and move it to another screen, or open a
: new one. You just change it in the MUI-settings for that program and choose
: either to use or to save the new settings, and the program window opens on
: the selected screen.
So it is possible. Still sounds like to much hassel to be realy usefule though. I flip windows forth and back between desktops quite a lot when running AtheOS. If I had to run a tool to move it I propably whould'nt bother.
: Its only possible to have a window open on one screen at
: the time though. But if you really wants have a program on two screens at the
: same time (I cant see why?), then why not run another copy of the program
One example is the "desktop manager", do you have the WorkBench with all its icons available on all the screens in AmigaOS when running MUI? I also tend to clone the CPU-meter and memoryusage-meter to all the desktops I work on.
: (most amiga programs can be ran in as many copies simultaniously as you have
: memory for.
That's possible inded, waist some memory though. It actualy wast less memory in AtheOS since it will share the code-segment (and read-only parts of the data-segment) between instances of the same app.
: About the F-keys, I dont know if MUI-settings can be controlled
: by arexx ? If it can, you probably could configure the F-keys to do this as
: well.
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:- In AmigaOS you cant drag windows outside the visible screen. But I wouldnt be
: any surpriced if you find hack on aminet that lets you do just that. I havent
: looked for it. Simply cause I never missed that feature. Sure if you run a
: low-res screensize it could be useful, but I think most Amigas in use today
: has gfx-cards and use sensible resolutions anyway.
Did not miss it to much eighter when I was running AmigaOS only, but I almost freaked out when I tried an Amiga again after getting used to this feature from other OS's :)
This seems to turn into a discussion about taste, and that sounds much like fighting against windmills to me :)
Kurt Skauen |
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