| [Rant] Nothing from Amiga Club !!! | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 23-Dec-2002 18:19 GMT by Hyun Koo | 48 comments
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Hello guys, I have been an Amiga user since 1989 and I have joined the Amiga Club (end of July) to support their initiative. And guess what? Thus far I haven't receive neither the discount coupon nor the t-shirt... It is just me or others in the Amiga community are having this similar problem??? I e-mailed Amiga, but no response thus far...
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| Nothing from Amiga Club !!! : Comment 35 of 48 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Nathaniel Downes on 24-Dec-2002 21:06 GMT | In reply to Comment 34 (Gregg):
The thing is, the original AOS4.0 as presented would have taken only 8-months to do. Much like MacOS, rather than re-impliment everything into PPC, just incorporate the entire OS on top of an emulator built into a new kernel that runs under Exec. Then, over time, replace the components. Their need to add new features and move more code to PPC than needs to be, new library and IPC systems, etc. is the root of the problem. MorphOS actually took the former approach, using the Amiga's own ROM on Alphas and early Beta's. Now they've re-implimented everything, and you've got a solid OS w/ a bright future beyond the classic Amiga market. By moving the kernel to underneath Exec, you can add things like memory protection and thread support without a serious re-write.
Hyperion, for all of their good intentions, took a much more difficult approach. I see a comparison to the various BeOS projects here. OpenBeOS uses the actual beOS and is replacing modules one-at-a-time while most of the others are hacking a non-Be-like kernel to emulate, basically doing whole-paper approach.
Of course, Hyperion could pull it off, and create a great OS. But the time needed does not justify the effort put into it and schism to the community. Imagine how we would be if the AOS4 team was put to MorphOS, to develop the ABox. We would have had this a good 6 months ago, and been well underway to the Q-Box, which is the more exciting prospect in my opinion.
We don't need 100% compatability. Even AOS wasn't 100% compatable with previous revisions. Think how many apps were broken from 1.3 to 2.0 or even more recently, how many apps don't handle 3.9 without throwing a tantrum. MorphOS settled for 90% compatability, and got it. It's the last 10%, the undocumented, unorthodox or plain strange API's that are the issue no matter what you're emulating. I feel that Hyperion is being too strict, and it will cause some serious delays yet to come. |
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