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[News] New Executive Update at Amiga.comANN.lu
Posted on 12-Apr-2001 22:53 GMT by Christian Kemp20 comments
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Frank Brockway wrote: Bill McEwen's latest Executive Update has been posted with clarfication on future direction and summary of announcements made at the St. Louis Gateway 2001 show.
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New Executive Update at Amiga.com : Comment 20 of 20ANN.lu
Posted by Chris Roccati on 15-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 19 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
> The memory protection will be placed inside the kernel of OS 5.
The safe and unsafe environment COULD be related to sandbox "virtual
machine-like" protected spaces designed for security reasons, but the
mention of special "safe" languages (SafeC) which would be pointless
in a memory protected environments is dubious...
> All the rest of those "buzzwords" are genuine features of OS 5.
Let me see... Orthogonal persistency? Semantic Contexts? PDP sensory
processing system?
If you seriously ponder the meaning of the terms you see that they're
thrown around with marginal correlation the "meaning" explained in the
sentence they're mentioned, and it sound more like playing with big
words than providing real informations...
> There is little point in producing yet another OS with more or less
> the same features as Linux, MacOS X, Windows 2000.
What is provided is *EXACTLY* the same features provided by the other
OS'es (expecially in 1-2 years), only expressed using "big words"...
> That's not what Amiga did in 1985 so I see little reason why Amiga
> Inc should do the same in 2002.
In fact in 1985 amiga provided *EXACTLY* the same features provided by
others, the point was that the accessibility of these features: you
could use hires graphics, high quality sound or even multitasking, but
you'd have to pay an order of magnitude MORE than you had to pay for
the amiga. THAT was the revolution.
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