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[News] Eyetech Devbox gone?ANN.lu
Posted on 12-May-2000 12:48 GMT by Christian Kemp12 comments
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Justin Van Heddegem writes: The news on the Eyetech website about their Devbox has been removed. Did it come too early? Or was it just a joke?
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Comment 1Mark S. Hone11-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 2Christian Kemp11-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 3Martin Baute11-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 4Christian Kemp11-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 5Chris Roccati12-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 6Carl Mohlin13-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 7Chris Roccati13-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 8Henrik Mikael Kristensen13-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 9Chris Roccati13-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 10Henrik Mikael Kristensen14-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Eyetech Devbox gone? : Comment 11 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Chris Roccati on 14-May-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Henrik Mikael Kristensen):
| So in essence: We really don't know what we want, but we know what
| we don't want. Right? In that case it will be an even more difficult
| job for Amiga Inc. to convince us that something new is good, when we
| bash something we haven't tried yet.
Excuse me, what in the java+linux combination you find something we
haven't tried yet?
(snip a lot of thing, that although very interesting are extremely far
from anything you can get with a UNIX+JAVA combo or with the
standalone JAVA on a "digital appliance")
| A system where you don't have to (but free
| of choice) think in a tree-structure when looking for documents,
| pictures, music, etc. (I really like Fleecy's idea. Maybe it's
| because I can see how useful it would be.)
Maybe because is a pipe dream to implement such a thing, maybe because
the filesystem astraction whereas a quite strong constraint in the
design of an operating system is also a fundamental requiremente in
the cooperation with other systems and applications. The basic,
unstructured data layout (like the one implemented in the NewtonOS and
the PalmOS -- so there's nothing so revolutionary in it either) is
suitable only for devices whose storage capacity is minimal and the
necessity of direct communication with foreign system is performed
with the direct cooperation of the foreign system itself; this
situation is acceptable for a very special purpose device (like a PDA)
but is very hard to stretch this operating mode to include larger
devices...
| A system which uses virtual memory (free of choice).
This point is more or less paradoxal: in unix you can't disable the
virtual memory subsystem - applications tend to behave like the memory
was more or less an unlimited resource; at the same time the
stand-alone Elate (according to the public documentation) does support
only a very rudimentary form of dynamic code loading/unloading similar
to the oldest MacOS segment loader.
| Any more things, we really don't know we want?
This is not a point regarding what we want or what we don't; we are
discussing about what Amiga Inc has so far promised that is a
development system running linux, with a custom JVM or a consumer
system running elate and more or less the same custom JVM. None of
these things are REVOLUTIONARY and one does not need to stretch his
fantasy to understand that.
After this you're still free to dream about "Star Trek"-like talking
computers; but rest assured that is NOT what Amiga Inc will bring.
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