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- From: fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 20:53:57 GMT
- Organization: Universit"at Bonn, Informatik Abt. II, R"omerstr. 164, 53117 Bonn
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- Irmen de Jong (irmen@cs.vu.nl) wrote:
- : On 28 Feb 1996 23:41:59 GMT Bernhard Fastenrath (fasten@weide.informatik.uni-bonn.de) (Bernhard Fastenrath) wrote:
- : : When the subject "OS features" is brought up everybody starts talking about
- : : memory protection and virtual memory. Let's they that will be taken care of.
-
- : : There are some other features I'd like to discuss:
-
- : : - ARexx was nice (and still is) but there's room for improvement.
- : : I'd like to see python (http://www.python.org) either as a
- : : second (official(!)) language or as the successor of ARexx.
- : : Python can even be used for applets (like Java).
-
- : Check out my port of Python 1.3. It's on Aminet.
- I know. What I'd like to see is an "official" Python in AmigaOS 4.x :-)
- (I know others prefer Perl/Tcl/ARexx, maybe a flexible interface which
- allows other languages to coexist with Arexx is the solution)
-
- : : - source code win32 API compatibility!? (NO, I don't want it but everybody
- : : else is going this way, so it might be a good idea ...)
-
- : You'll jump in the pool if everybody else jumps in the pool also? Hmm.
-
- Of course :-)
-
- If Win32 really beats Unix (POSIX) as far as portability is concerned and
- develops into a widely used portability API this might be a good idea.
-
- : : - soft/hard links (don't tell me we already have links)
-
- : We already have links. Soft links are not very well supported yet, I agree.
-
- I told you not to ...
-
- : : - MacOS binary compatibility (ShapeShifter)
-
- : ??? Impossible if you don't emulate the Mac OS also.
-
- Include ShapeShifter was what I wanted to say (running AmigaOS and
- MacOS at the same time is really nice :-)
-
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