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Wishlist for Workbench

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#131646From: Charlie HeathJun 24, 1988 9:06 PM
Why not a SIMPLE_REFRESH CLI window with console memory and really fast text display, which would let you remember a lot more CLI text than a SUPERBITMAP would; with fast enough text you couldn't tell the difference, except that there would be a lot more memory free. Or, why not a CLI which uses ARP so it uses a lot less memory… Or, why not applications that use ARP so they can set an explicit STACKSIZE which in itself can save most of the memory used by arp.library for a single application, not to mention the memory saved for argument parsing, file requests, etc. Or… well, you get the drift. 15K bytes on a 1-meg system gets lost in the noise pretty quickly- …cheath