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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:18 Apr 2001 at 13:59:39
Subject:Re: c:LoadMonDrvs

Matt Sealey said,

> Hello Neil

>> A MorphOS version of LoadMonDrvs would make life even easier.

> Like that'll ever happen. Haage & Partner have "exclusivity" on most
> of Stephan Rupprecht's code now, so unless it comes with OS3.9 then
> it doesn't exist anymore (he even removed the older downloads from
> his page!)

It doesn't have to be a port, just a program that does the same thing.
LoadMonDrvs isn't unique anyway, there was BindMonitors before.

>> Even this shouldn't really be necessary. MorphOS has its own kernel,
>> there's no reason why it has to use S:startup-sequence as its boot
>> script, a different name would help keep the two setups separate.

> For something that tries to claim compatibility with AmigaOS, changing
> such fundamental concepts would be just plain dumb.

Fair point, that thought only occurred to me as I was writing the mail. I
can see that it would cause problems.

Neil



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