19 Feb
2010
19 Feb
'10
1:46 p.m.
AMOS (Amiga OS) Basic and it's successor AMOS Pro allowed you to do this on
the Amiga. You could reserve a "bank" of memory which could then be used to
store anything (e.g. music, sprites, data and compressed images). It was
possible to have up to 65535 banks, but due to memory limitations the vast
majority of AMOS-made software kept all other files separate.
It's kinda funny how 15-20 year old ideas are resurfacing as "new ideas".
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Foust" <jfoust at threedee.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: VMware appliances
For the Windows-based emulators, I suspect we'll soon have a file format
that bundles all of an application and its data into a redistributable
single-file format. You can see glimpses of this already in the
enterprise tools that let you run an app this way, without actually
installing it into your registry and hard drive. Maybe it'll be a
way from all this Windows ugliness.