lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (12/23/88)
Does anyone know any good reson why there is a hardcoded 20 CLI limit on the
Amiga? A few of us were chatting about it, and it resulted in a small patch
program that increases this limit to 255.
While 255 is many more CLIs than you would ever want (things get pretty
sluggish as the number of active CLIs increases), it was a handy number,
filling the byte that does the limiting.
In testing (while on line and chatting in real time), I managed to open 255
CLIs. They all showed up in status, and I did test a few to see that they were
functional. I had to reduce each one in size as I opened it (to the minimum),
as without resizing, I ran into CHIP ram limits at about 26 active.
The main reason I am asking is to find out if this 10 CLI limitation was
arbitrary or had a good reason behind it.
-larry
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