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- From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 05:18:01 -0700
- Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010
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- The mortal gcaine wrote:
- : Keep the memory handling as it is, and then when there's faster CPU,
- : it will be able to do that much more. Why add something that's going
- : to change the whole concept of the Amiga?
-
- Technology has changed the computer industry so radically that the
- traditional role of the Amiga hardly makes sense anymore. I'm speaking
- primarily about the console-based knockaround computer which is now a
- dinosaur concept and living on with the new A1200s. The Amiga OS is the
- only thing that can live on. I do wonder sometimes, though, whether the
- new Amiga OS is going to be so radically different from the old, that they
- will essentially be duplicating the efforts of "BE", sans multiprocessor
- support (there are elements of the BE desktop that I'm not too fond of
- {MACISMS} but the guts of the multitasking system sound incredible). I
- wonder whether it would be more productive to just develop an Amiga
- emulation for the BeBox and be done with it. In the next couple years, a
- PPC Amiga OS won't be the best anymore--it'll just be an also-ran.
-
- CPUs are powerful enough to handle this "performance hit" and still run
- rings around the fastest 060 with native PPC code. As for RAM
- requirements, we don't want to make the Amiga as bloated as a MAC, so
- some form of compromise should be designed. Like perhaps making memory
- protection optional. VM should be standard even in the low end. There
- is no reason not to use it.
-