Re: LZ: Shell Anarchy!


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Re: LZ: Shell Anarchy!



> 
> Micah/Richard Brodsky wrote:
> > 
> > HELP!!!! We're heading straight for shell anarchy!!!!!!!!
> > Please don't shudder, but I think there are two terms that could be most
> > useful: Standardization and ZShell.
> > How about adding a few more people to the ZShell team, for instance, the
> > CShell team? ZShell could use improvements, true, but too many shells with
> > different extended ROM_CALL sets and non-graph-mem interrupt programming
> > methods is asking for lots of trouble, in my opinion. Other features could be
> > implemented with, yes, LIBRARIES! What happened to that age old concept, sure
> > to be added to a long overdue version of ZShell? How about a version of
> > ZShell, 101% backward compatible, with a fixed-location interrupt chaining
> > API, library support, and the all-important blessing by the populous? Would
> > that be too hard?
> 
> Yes... libraries, tsr/interrupt support, APD, RELOCATION (no need to use
> PROGRAM_ADDR any more), 44 new rom calls (creating/deleting vars etc)
> is a really good idea. I wonder if it's a coincidence that Usgard supports
> that!?
> 
> -- 
> Jimmy Mårdell                   "Man is no machine
> mailto:mja@algonet.se            Man is no God
> http://www.algonet.se/~mja       Mankind is, and will always be...
> IRC: Yarin                       a pest"
> 

Will the Expander stuff be in a library? how big will these libraries be?


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