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[News] Comprehensive OS3.9 previewANN.lu
Posted on 06-Dec-2000 14:57 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä6 comments
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Amiga-news.de now have an english translation (original german version is here) of Martin Steigerwald's article that originally appeared in Amiga Magazin issue 01/2001. It's a detailed article about what is new in OS3.9.

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Comment 1Electric head05-Dec-2000 23:00 GMT
Comprehensive OS3.9 preview : Comment 2 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by the man in the shadows on 06-Dec-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Electric head):
I can say this. A well configured Magellan II with OS3.5 is no comparison to a well configured Magellan II with OS3.1. I have 3.5 as well as Magellan II and won't turn back.
There are some features of 3.9 that are a must have that were not present in 3.5 and that you can't just download off of the Aminet. Outside of just Aminet enhancements, there are quite a few things that are welcomed in the release of 3.9. I'm sure that "XAD" (archiver) could be implemented into Magellan II in some way shape or form to enhance on the already powerful ArcDir. Not to mention that but the buggy form of IPrefs from 3.1 (or fastiprefs for that matter) are a far cry from that of 3.5 but with the addition of the new features in the 3.9 version, that's worth ten of my hard earned quid right there.
All in all, the fact that H&P have found some way to run the installer without OS3.1 already installed and install 3.9 from scratch off of a CD. Also, it seems aparent that the CacheCDFS might support booting from CD now so you could just pop the disc in the drive (automount boards I'm assuming) to recover the system.
yeah, there are some nice features of 3.9 that could be hard to live without.
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