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RC5-72 contest, AOS4 could catch MOS : Comment 50 of 110 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Johan Rönnblom on 12-Sep-2004 18:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 49 (Amon_Re): I'll give you three.
1) OS4 is quite different to any previous "Amiga" OS'es, for example
it uses a whole new kernel, runs on a different hardware platform, and
is not compatible with previous PowerPC/Amiga OS programs. Just like
Apple clients changed platform ID during similar circumstances, it
would make a lot of sense to do this for OS4.
2) Some people, such as the poster of this newsitem, are obviously
looking forward towards a competition between OS4 and MorphOS. I see
nothing harmful in such a competition personally. But of course, this
is currently not possible, as most of the keys for the PowerPC/Amiga
OS platform were not contributed by clients running on OS4.
3) Attempts to politicise the PowerPC/Amiga OS platform by infering
that somehow "PowerPC/Amiga OS" is equal to "Amiga OS4" but contrary
to "MorphOS" will obviously put off a lot of people who do not want to
contribute to "Amiga OS4". As there is no way to select which platform
you want to contribute to, these people would simply have to stop
running the client altogether. This would mean fewer keys would be
contributed f ex to the Amiga team. |
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