[Forum] AmigaOS 4.0 on Pegasos | ANN.lu |
Posted on 15-Apr-2002 13:27 GMT by Morka | 510 comments View flat View list |
This is email from Thomas Frieden about AOS4.0 and Pegasos board.
Odosielate¾: Thomas Frieden <ThomasF@hyperion-entertainment.com>
Adresát: morka@zoznam.sk
Predmet: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 on Pegasos
Hi,
morka@zoznam.sk wrote:
>Hi. I have one problem. I want buy Pegasos but at today AOS4.0 not run on this board.
Say who ? I thought it was already said: We do want to support the Pegasos board. It's firmly planned. Unfortunately, we haven't received a developer board yet, but if we ever get one, OS4 will run on the Pegasos.
Regards,
Thomas Frieden
Senior Developer, Hyperion Entertainment
ThomasF@hyperion-entertainment.com
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com
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Posted by Frodon on 15-Apr-2002 18:14 GMT | Hello,
Some clarifications:
It's very easy to understand why MorphOS is legal. MorphOS is, like Wine, a complete reimplementation of AmigaOS APIs like Wine is a complete implementation of Windows APIs.
Wine is legal because, even when he needed some Windows parts, he didn't use any part of Windows (binary or source). And he was always delivered WITHOUT the required Windows parts. That's mean people who would like to use Wine had to buy Windows. Now Wine can work without Windows because his Windows APIs implementations are enough complete to allow him to run Windows apps directly. Wine is in some way a copy of Windows for Linux, but a legal one for the reason i gave above (didn't use any part of Windows (source or binary) ).
For MorphOS, it's exactly the same, MorphOS reimplement AmigaOS APIs without using any part of AmigaOS (source or binary). And MorphOS will never and has never be delivered with AmigaOS. So People who want to use MorphOS have to buy AmigaOS.
In the future (and maybe already for the first final release of MorphOS), MorphOS will be able to run AmigaOS 3.x apps directly because he will implement enough APIs to allow that (exactly like Wine do it today for Windows APIs).
Wine is legal (and it's recognised even by M$), SO MorphOS is legal. Both Wine and MorphOS don't use and has never used any part of the OS they try to mimic (source or binary), that's why they are both legal.
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