Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!gatech!udel!mmdf From: C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!) Message-ID: <21453@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 11 Aug 89 01:23:05 GMT Lines: 27 jms@tardis.tymnet.com writes in Message-ID: <490@tardis.Tymnet.COM> > > Valentin, did you ever stop to think - most of us have more than one bootable > Workbench disk. If you copy even just one ARP command to the C: directory, > you have to copy arp.library as well. Many times. Over and over. > I have some floppies that are so tight that arp.library won't fit. > (These are special purpose floppies where replacing all commands in C: > may be contra-productive.) > I used to have lots of bootable Workbench disks. That is until I upgraded to 1.3 last year. First I tried the direct approach, upgrading each disk one by one. Unfortunately, each one had a different subset of Workbench environment and the task of re-hacking each disk was so large that I just chucked the whole idea and concentrated on developing one, general disk. I now have only two bootables: Workbench (general) and my Compiler disk. The later has a special startup-sequcence to get me back up and running as fast as possible after a GURU. I was able to convert entirely to ARP in an evening, something I never could have done with the old system. Bitnet: C506634@umcvmb.bitnet __________________________ Internet: C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu / \.--------. / \ "The Amiga just isn't reliable enough unless you | | Eric |---------+ | know a lot about the machine" -- Jerry Pournelle | `--------' ! | ================================================|| .--------. ! | "I did notice that at my party people stood in | | Edwards|_________+ | line to play with the Amiga"-- Jerry Pournelle | /`--------' | BYTE, October '88 \__________________________/