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Further more, you get a new application on floppy. The disk is named FOOAPP. The application can then request data files such as FOOAPP:data1.dat and FOOAPP:d
by spc476 10y ago
Further more, you get a new application on floppy. The disk is named FOOAPP. The application can then request data files such as FOOAPP:data1.dat and FOOAPP:data2.dat. If the program is running and you remove the floppy, no issue. When the program tries to open FOOAPP:data3.dat, the operating system will then ask you to insert disk FOOAPP (and there's no having to dismiss the alert box or anything---the system will detect the inserted disk and dismiss the alert box automatically).
Later, when you get a harddrive (or decide you like the app and want to continue using it), you can copy it to the harddrive (wherever you want) and add an assign "FOOAPP=MY_APPS:new/fooapp" and the application will still work just fine.
It's still something I miss.
- vidarh 10y agoThere were lots of attention to details like that... I still hope AROS will get to the point where I can use it more. The big challenge is SMP and memory protection; without it a lot of software gets really hard to port (a lot of essential OSS software depends on fork()). It's in the works, though, so maybe one day...