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Posted on 20-Nov-2002 04:10 GMT by amigammc | 216 comments View flat View list |
On the Amiga Website you'll find a joint communicate from Amiga, Hyperion and Eyetech.
November 19, 2002 - With the AmigaOne now shipping and AmigaOS4.0 in its final stages of development and testing, the time has come to begin letting the rest of the world know the good news, that the Amiga is alive, well and ready to let the World have fun with computing again.
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Posted by DaveW on 21-Nov-2002 08:04 GMT | In reply to Comment 196 (Fabio Alemagna): "For unices it would be very simple: all you have to do is to provide the right system calls, which are not much, and then you can just install all the rest of the userland binaries."
I had to say I choked so hard at this point that bits of my bagel hit the monitor.
The right system calls? OK, so lets say X11R6 implemented to retarget to a native
display mode, all the POSIX calls that Linux supports and all of the modifications
that Linus made, the filesystem layout to be the same. The UDS and TCP support
needs to be spot on.
Fork and vFork tend to be a pain to get right as does native POSIX threads.
Then you need to make sure that the addressability works the same, that the
kernel of your "(e)L-BOX" can load the right executables in the right manner
and manage shared objects the same way as Linux.
You MIGHT then end up with something that might load some of the Linux/PPC binaries.
Maybe.
Don't expect them to work at all well though.
Get the interfaces right and you might be able to port applications easier ( if
the compiler is the same as was originally used, I get caught up on exported names
used with function pointers being treated differently more often than not ).
Like I say, syntax and semantics.
Dave. |
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