[openbeos] Re: Add-ons/Module problems/ideas??

  • From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 22:01:27 EDT (-0400)

Michael Phipps wrote:
> Now. Having said that, I think that a special shutdown that says
> "on reboot, I want to start up *RIGHT* where I am" is a cool thing.
> Maybe not the average thing. But great for some users.

OS/2 had that feature.  At times it could be quite annoying (slow
startup, with programs you didn't really want), while other people
liked it.  Actually, Smalltalk has a dump-the-whole-image save
method, which worked pretty well, since restarting the system
was very quick.

- Alex



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