Re: LZ: Shell Anarchy!


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Re: LZ: Shell Anarchy!



Micah/Richard Brodsky wrote:
> 
> HELP!!!! We're heading straight for shell anarchy!!!!!!!!
> Please don't shudder, but I think there are two terms that could be most
> useful: Standardization and ZShell.
> How about adding a few more people to the ZShell team, for instance, the
> CShell team? ZShell could use improvements, true, but too many shells with
> different extended ROM_CALL sets and non-graph-mem interrupt programming
> methods is asking for lots of trouble, in my opinion. Other features could be
> implemented with, yes, LIBRARIES! What happened to that age old concept, sure
> to be added to a long overdue version of ZShell? How about a version of
> ZShell, 101% backward compatible, with a fixed-location interrupt chaining
> API, library support, and the all-important blessing by the populous? Would
> that be too hard?

Yes... libraries, tsr/interrupt support, APD, RELOCATION (no need to use
PROGRAM_ADDR any more), 44 new rom calls (creating/deleting vars etc)
is a really good idea. I wonder if it's a coincidence that Usgard supports
that!?

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