From owner-mint@fishpool.com Thu Mar 20 22:17:29 2003 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:08:48 +0100 From: Patrice Mandin To: Mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] Cookie jar under MiNT: is it a real problem ? Message-Id: <20030320220848.1d4dee42.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: References: <20030320162413.28c95703.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> Reply-To: pmandin@caramail.com Organization: Chez moi X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id h2KLHRn11970 Le Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:29:55 +0100 (CET) Frank Naumann a écrit: > A nice idea for sure but what about the existing applications? They need > to be rewritten which is mostly not possible. Many existing applications don't care also about multitasking OS. They mainly think they are running under TOS, so I say about these ones: why bother with wanting to make them run under MiNT with memory protection ? TOS in ROM is always available for these dirty-written apps. -- Patrice Mandin WWW: http://membres.lycos.fr/pmandin/ Programmeur Linux, Atari Spécialité: Développement, jeux