Suggestion: can we get these Commodore BOOPSI classes to become part of the official OS distribution?
Yes, more BOOPSI please. Greatly preferred over ReAction.
* Is L:System-Startup a text file with paths to all the modules you wish to load?
Nope. It's a new system component. A quite interesting one that has been factored out of the dos.library and that is approximately the equivalent of the "unix init process". It is responsible for mounting devices and starting the initial shell. And also for something new, namely replacing ROM components without a reboot. Essentially, everything "from intuition upwards" can be replaced by a corresponding module on disk, provided its version is larger than the disk version. This means that in case we need to update some of them, we just ship the file. Actually, I hope that if we get a 3.2 ROM, it will be the last ROM that requires shipping as a lot of its contents can now be exchanged by System-startup. As said, no reboot necessary.
Awesome! Eventually, once you're essentially replacing everything i'd prefer a new ROM. Hmmm.... would this feature also mean we're no longer limited to available addressing space of the ROM's?
So far, most of what i see is geared towards hard core shell users, which the average person is not.
More BOOPSI would help developers.
Most of todays users need:
Networking to exchange files with the internet and their PCs. (a big project)
Built in lha and zip support to handle file archives once transfered.
Easy GUI methods to launch favorite applications/games/demos.
...hmmm, gotta be more but i'm sleep deprived at the moment.
