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- From: sam mackrill <mackrill@atuk.aspentec.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Q-OS : emulate ANYTHING on the amiga
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:31:04 +0000
- Organization: Aspen Technology, Inc.
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- Quote from Jeremy Gurr on IRC :
-
- > Q Operating System is the first fully hardware and interface
- > independant operating system. This allows it to do some interesting
- > things, such as DOOM on an Amiga, or an Amiga paint program on a 16
- > processor Cray YMP-C90. It is fully capable of "forcing" the issue,
- > if the program doesn't want to cooperate. Impossible? It is, with
- > current OS technology. That is why we've had to start from scratch,
- > completely rebuilding the philosophy of OS design. No longer is the end
- > user at the mercy of the applications programmers. Instead of lowering
- > the system to match as many applications as possible, Q raises those
- > applications to meet the system. This is retargetability at its ideal.
- > At long last hardware designers will be free from compatibility
- > worries, and applications programmers don't have to support all of
- > the "standards" out there. In fact, they don't have to support any!
- > The techniques we use to do what we do also offer many other
- > advantages, such as some of those previously discussed.
- > Because of the way it handles the applications, things such as crash
- > proofing, resource management, auto-caching, virus resistance,
- > full retargetability, and many other features become possible.
-
- Does anyone have any new information on Q-OS?
- Is it a hoax or what ;-)
- There is some stuff on aminet and it's absolutley amazing if true
-
- docs/misc/Q_log.lha : Log of the IRC conference with one of the Q authors
- pix/illu/qgrab.jpg : Screen grab from the Q-OS project (AmigaOS replacement)
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- read the log!
-
- Sam Mackrill
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