[Rant] "Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 25-Dec-2002 12:19 GMT by P E | 220 comments View flat View list |
Over at amiga.org, the signature "takemehomegrandma" has published a somewhat satirical post - for your enjoyment, here goes:
I want to apologize that the AmigaOne has still not been released (A1 mobos+OS4). I also want to apologize to our competing companies that we have accused for crimes in public without being able to back those accusations up with either proof or legal action. I also want to apologize for not keeping our promises to you developers who bought our expensive SDK's. I also want to apologize to the users who bought our coupons, ehrm, JOINED OUR CLUB, but has not been given anything of the promised. I also want to apologize for the confusion when our offices suddenly were empty and our phones went dead (but that was a result of hackers, remember). Amiga Inc is truly a global 24 hours a day company and the future looks brighter than ever for our beloved AMIGA. We are pleased to announce a Games Pocket Pack to our friends Micro$ofts Pocket PC. This truly shows what a great commitment our 3000 content developers has to our beloved AMIGA. Wonderful things are about to happen as allways. Thank you, as allways, for your support. Keep the AMIGA spirit, and remember to follow our trademark wherever we go. We are AMIGA. You are AMIGA (if you pay us 50 bucks). We will be back with more exciting announcements during the next weeks. See you then! /Yours McBill
Well, there you go. Merry christmas!
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Posted by Frodon on 26-Dec-2002 23:36 GMT | In reply to Comment 121 (RPM): Hello,
Well here how I see the thing. The A-Box is not really an emulator because it doesn't emulate anything except the 68k. I'll explain, the ABox have APIs, this APIs are indeed compatible with the AmigaOS APIs but they don't emulate them, they are created/written just like any API on any OS.
So tasks running on the ABox simply use these APIs just like any task on any OS using APIs of the OS.
A Linux task use Linux APIs, an AmigaOS task use AmigaOS APIs, a MorphOS ABox task use ABox APIs.
Only 68k tasks are using an emulator to run, i.e: the 68k emulator but they still use the ABox APIs (which are native APIs) when they ask for some AmigaOS APIs (like Intuition, Gadtools...etc APIs) just because these APIs are compatible.
The only difference with a common OS like MacOS or Windows is that the ABox is a Quark task, in fact it's like the Classic box in MacOS X. Applications running in MacOS X Classic box are simply using the MacOS 9.2 APIs and no emulation is used at all.
Yes this could be called "virtual machine" but it's not IMHO the most appropriate term because in this term there is the word "Machine" which should imply that the box is emulation/simulating a machine which is not the case with the MacOS X Classic Box or MorphOS ABox (of course this is the case with the JavaVM or with VMWare under Linux which are real VM).
Let's just say that it's an environment box. That's to say that it's a software box that offer an environment to run some type of softwares.
I think it's more appropriate to call it like that if you really want to give a name to that kind of boxes.
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