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| Posted on 20-Jun-2004 13:11 GMT by MOSlem | 137 comments
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With this mail I want to thank everyone (bPlan, Genesi, MorphOS developer team and all the volunteers) involved into the PegasosII and MorphOS for keeping up the good old Amiga spirit and showing us the future for Amiga. Big thanks to all of you who you spent all the years onto the Amiga and finally found a new real path for the Amiga. For me as user PegasosII and MorphOS is everything that I want to see a modern Amiga should be. Quite modern and affordable Hardware, a nice clean and fast Operating System and all the developers and 3rd party people heavily supporting it. Without you the Amiga would still be a dead thing but with all you people we are happy to look forward into a nice future.
Thanks again.
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| Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 22-Jun-2004 16:46 GMT | In reply to Comment 111 (Sammy Nordström):
> Again, AmigaOS4 *is* AmigaOS, not a re-implementation of AmigaOS.
Do you know what a reimplementation is? I guess not.
AmigaOS4 is not a direct port of the AmigaOS source code. Most of it has been
rewritten, retaining compatability. What is that? A reimplementation.
> MorphOS, even if it contains AmigaOS wrappers and reverse engineered AmigaOS
> APIs, is an entirely new product line rather than a re-implementation of the
> AmigaOS.
Argh! You just said it yourself that it contains "reverse engineered AmigaOS
APIs"... What did they do with those APIs? They did reimplement them!
For a programmer you sound pretty clueless...
> The wrappers and APIs are there for making the transition to the new OS and
> hardware platform a bit more convinient and attractive for AmigaOS users, but > that doesn't change the fact that it's an entirely new OS with it's own
> specific design, extensions and functionality that is completely different
> from the real AmigaOS.
You really don't have no clue about MorphOS, so give up already... Ok?
MorphOS on it's whole is different but the A/Box, the "thing" that everybody
sees and uses right now is EXACTLY what AmigaOS is. It uses the AmigaOS design,
API etc. People can go on using that even after the Q/Box gets ready.
It is built so that compatibility can be retained "forever" while moving to a
more modern environment.
On the other hand, on AmigaOS4, Hyperion already expressed their intent to
remove backward compatibility when it reaches maturity on a software level.
At that point what will be left for old AmigaOS users? Most AmigaOS users that
have PCs use certain OLD software for the Amiga even when there are replacements
for their platform AND the PC. They use those programs because they do the job
they want to do better. Fine. These progs will be gone forever...
Face it Samface... |
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