[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 takemehomegrandma on 27-Dec-2002 12:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 162 (catohagen): > mos runs amiga programs, mos is not amiga nor amigaos, so its an emulator.
No. MorphOS is a new OS, written from scratch, based on a microkernel and a "box" design. The Abox is a reimplementation of AmigaOS, thus it uses the Amiga API but the code behind the API is written from scratch in PPC. So MorphOS is an alternative AmigaOS distribution (native) and not an emulator. Emulation has nothing to do with brand names, no matter how much you would like to think so.
> it have other features added aswell, but the whole MEANING of abox is
> to run amiga programs, in a *non* amigaos environment..thats EMULATING
The Abox *IS* an AmigaOS envireonment, but without the Amiga(tm) brand. So it's *not* emulating.
> It doesnt emulate the cpu, but it EMULATES the amiga environment...
There is CPU emulation for the 68k processor, but the Amiga envireonment is there natively through the Amiga API and the native MorphOS Abox functions behind it. I think you are again confusing emulation with trademarks.
> morphos gives the amiga programs the same environment, so it will not know
> if its in the real amigaos nor morphos, the abox is EMULATING the
> real amigaos and the amiga environment.
Read above! BTW, do you realize that the same thing will be the case for AmigaOS4? The OS4 gives the Amiga programs the same envireonment as before, so they will not know if it's the 68k AmigaOS3.1 or the PPC OS4. So in your definition of emulation, the OS4 will be an AmigaOS emulator? Or is emulation all about branding and trademarks in your opinion?
In fact, there will be even more of emulation in OS4, since parts of it won't even be in PPC and therefore parts of the OS itself will be run through the 68k emulator. |
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