[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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Posted by Frodon on 28-Apr-2002 10:44 GMT | In reply to Comment 502 (Samface): Hello Samface:
You said:
" Will you please explain the fact that Ben Hermans has a flyer ad for MorphOS which says; "requires Workbench"? Well, that A/Box thing is far from complete and that's why I said that you're talking about future features of MorphOS. The currently available version still requires the original Amiga Workbench in order to run and as long as it does, the A/Box cannot be refered to as a complete workbench replacement, right?"
I didn't said that it's a complete Workbench replacement. I said that it's an AmigaOS APIs comaptible layer. That means it's APIs comaptible with AmigaOS but that don't mean he replace all the elements of AmigaOS. An OS is mostly a kernel, all things running on the kernel are high level elements and are more applications than parts of the OS itself. That's mean you don't have to implement all the high level parts to be compatible with an OS. MorphOS actually implements all the essential parts that allow him to run all the others. I mean there is enough rewritten NATIVE AMigaOS compatible APIs in MorphOS A/Box to run all the high level parts of the AmigaOS directly including the Amiga Workbench which is the GUI for AmigaOS and which is an Application. Even intuition is a application. In fact quite all things that run upon the kernel can be considered as application and so the only essentials APIs that have to be implemented to run them is the APIs which are in the kernel.
Of course the final goal of MorphOS is to implement all the APIs of AmigaOS included high level APIs as rewritten NATIVE APIs. But that's not because it implement only the lowlevel APIs that it makes it an emulator because it emulate nothing except the 68k and as it implements the essential lowlevel APIs natively to be able to run all the other elements of AmigaOS it don't need to emulate anything, the 68k emulator is enough all the left elements are executed antively gracefull the rewritten APIs already implemented.
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