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| Posted on 15-Mar-2003 16:43 GMT by MIB | 155 comments
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8 Days ahead of schedule! The first ever Q&A With Fleecy Moss is now available over at AmigaWorld.net
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| Ten Answers with Fleecy Moss! : Comment 114 of 155 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Darth_X on 17-Mar-2003 08:55 GMT | In reply to Comment 113 (Alex Klauke):
>> (Personally, I though the Tao stuff, which is neat technology in its own
>> right, was a good idea 3 years ago. I changed my mind: it isn't going to
>> work.
> I like the idea yet. And I agree with you to the extent that intent would
> not work as the sole foundation of a new OS. So yes, I changed my mind
> too that it is not the right way to exchange AmigaOS/Exec w/ intent, but
> for it being an addition to the platform, just like ARexx was (is).
Check some of this out (if you haven't)
http://withintent.biz/index2.php?Cat=1
http://tao-group.com/index2.php?cat=2
http://tao-group.com/index2.php?cat=7
Hey.. TAO intent is at CeBIT!
Amiga version of Rexx? (note Amiga is mentioned)
http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/
>> Amiga technology, to be successful, has to be a combination of
>> cross-platform standards like the C language, and native
>> Amiga development, as is being done by the IBrowse and Hyperion teams.
>> Licensing other people's stuff or porting from Linux is no good.
> Fully agree here. The platform needs a solid technical base and a
> good set of standard tools and applications. This is what we (will)
> get through the subsequent releases of OS4 and developers porting to
> (from OS3.x/68k) and enhancing on by utilizing the additional features
> Hyperion provides with it.
I also agree. These are the kinds of comments that the CTO should be talking about right now, there should be a focus on development. Sadly, I don't see this. This is where I am disapointed with AmigaInc.
> But, to be successful, that is _grow_, AmigaOS needs to distinguish
> itself from other OS's. It's library model, Datatypes and ARexx are
> those parts of the past and present, AmigaDE could be (the) one of
> and for the future. After all i(nten)t does nothing more than to
> provide "cross-platform standards like the C language" (and C++, Eiffel,
> Java..) but also is 'cross-platform' by definition. In a very similar
> way ReXX was to be a cross-platform scripting standard once.
Intent in itself is a good idea, there are a few applications that run on intent nicely.. its the bigger apps (like high end video games) that need better - faster - performance, by being coded directly to the OS, instead of something like intent.
> Porting from Linux and licensing "other people's stuff" can only work
> if it is adapted to the Amiga programming model to make the apps "Amiga
> native". Things like KHTML may be used as starting points rather than
> start developement from scratch, but they can (have to) be enhanced
> to be truly Amiga-ish. Straight porting w/o using any of the features
> of AmigaOS would not be a good thing. But it will be some time until
> the Amiga platform can yet again be the starting point for development
> of new kinds of applications. ('stand on its own feet' that is).
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