[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 27-Dec-2002 06:34 GMT | In reply to Comment 135 (RPM): Hello,
Yes and no, as far as I can see, the word emulator in the computer world is only used to speak about reproducing hardware.
Additionnaly the ABox not act exactly like AmigaOS, its APIs are written from scratch and offer new functionnalities that the original AmigaOS doesn't just for example.
So yes emulator can be used but in my opinion that's not the best word to describe it. You know in the english language there is a rich vocabulary to describe things, why should we restrict the description of the ABox (also valid for the OS X Classic box) when you can give a better one?
So in my opinion an Environment Box is a better description of what it is. I say that because the way how the kind of boxes works can be used for a lot more things than just offer compatibility with other OSes, for example the QBox in MorphOS will have completely new APIs and so will not reproduce the functionnalities of anything, it'll offer a completely new environment with his own APIs. And it'll still be a Box in the same fashion as the ABox.
So the definition of "environment box" will still be valid for the QBox but "emulator" will not be valid at all. And as in fact the QBox and ABox are similar in the concept this is paradoxal. I mean ABox and QBox are the same kind of thing technologically speaking, they'll just not offer the same environment (i.e: The APIs will be different) but if we used the definition of "emulator" for the ABox that'd mean the ABox is not the same thing technologically speaking than the QBox. Which is not true.
When you give a definition to something is to say what it is, not what it does.
So if you want you can say: The ABox is an environment box which emulate the AmigaOS environment. This is ok. But: the ABox is an emulator, is not ok as it's not what it is as itself.
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