Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!yale!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!benoni From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: eztos, 40 folder limit, and other stuff Message-ID: <1062@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 02:17:13 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.1062 Posted: Wed Dec 31 02:17:13 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 20:41:21 EST Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA Lines: 43 Keywords: desktop, hard disk, new roms -EZTOS- I just finished seeing a demo of eztos which i found *very* encouraging. I don't know who created it but someone out there is about to make the current GEM desktop extinct. The good things i noticed were : 1) the icons don't snap, they can be placed anywhere on the desktop. 2) the trash can is very Macintosh-like, clicking on the trash can brings up a window (you empty it just like the Mac via the pop-up menu). 3) i clicked 21 times on the drive A icon and got 21 windows! No limitation of eight. 4) the pop-up menus include a way of adjusting the background screen bits like the Mac, adjusting color (like the GEM control panel), and a number of other items, 5) the file icons can be placed on the desktop alongside the icons, 6) the pop-up menu is a bit flashier than the regular GEM menus- they are heavily shadowed, 7) scrolling is *very* smooth and quite clear (that is words are visible as they scroll by), Some not so good things about the demo : 1) the demo crashed with my hard disk hooked up, i got some bizarre exception (division by zero or something like that), 2) the demo did not allow copying (though delete seemed to work), and a number of menu items were not operational. Some things that would be nice while this thing is in the development phase : 1) An icon that would be akin to the bin/csh icon on a Sun (am I dreaming Unix). Clicking on it would popup as many command line windows as memory would allow! 2) A copying mechanism that would allow copying between windows ala Apollo (Display Manager) Editor. 3) A tools floating popup menu brought up by the right mouse button (akin to desk accessories). Question : does anyone know who the developer of eztos is? -40 FOLDER LIMIT- Instead of warning us about the dangers of going over the 40 folder limit is Atari DOING anything about it? Like a patch to OS. New ROMS. I mean this is a pretty dubious 'feature' Atari are you listening? Do you have any plans to remedy the problem?