>From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
>
>On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, David Balazic wrote:
>
>> AmigaOS just polled the line to detect insertions and removals.
>
>Wonderful. And how frequent the polling was?
>
>> it would mount as another logical volume. Now when there was a need to
>> access
>> the first floppy, the OS popped up a dialog ( a requester, in amiga
>> terminology :-)
>> saying "Insert volume Linux_help_disk into any drive". When the user
>
>Ahem... OK, does anyone else see something strange in words "OS popped up
>a dialog"?
Yeah. I always refered to it as a "demander". No way around it, from the
UI point of view. This was where your Amiga lost it's multi-tasking.
Rick Hohensee
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