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- From: sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz (Stephen B Hodge)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 02:58:38 GMT
- Organization: The University of Waikato
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- Mike (Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- :
- : Hi, Stephen B Hodge , on 06-Mar-96 01:33:23 you scribbled....
- : >Bernhard Fastenrath (fasten@weide.informatik.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
- : >: - MacOS binary compatibility (ShapeShifter)
- : >No. On a PPC machine, if you want to run mac binaries, you buy MacOS, if you
- : >want to run Windoze you buy WindowsNT, if you want unix you buy one of
- : >several flavours of unix available. We want an Amiga so we should stick to an
- : >Amiga.
- :
- : Ah but that would mean a reboot at least to use the different OS.
- : Say you're doing some graphics stuff on the Amiga , and want to run it thorugh
- : photoshop - just run shapshifter( or equivilent) and quit it when you're
- : done... OK this will always need an emulator of some sort, but this option
- : should be available..
- See my other reply. I would really like to see the ability to run several OSes
- at the same time (with each one on its own AmigaOS screen). Intercommunication
- could be provided by networking (eg. each OS thinks the others are seperate
- computers on a network).
- It is a more elegant solution. I don't like the idea of having a Mac emulator
- under AmigaOS, a windows emulator under MacOS etc, when the computer can run
- the real OS that is being emulated.
-
- : >Clipboard support should be improved. We have a nice multitasking OS, but at
- : >the moment information exchange between programs is not easy in many cases.
- :
- : There's already provision in datatypes...but its poorly (if at all) documented
- : at the mo (and thats assuming you can actually GET the 3.1 stuff....)
- Very few datatype seem to support saving, and even then you have to save to
- a file and then load that up into the other app. I want to be able to cut a
- piece of work in one app, and just paste in another. Most OSes have this
- already, but the Amiga support is not up to standard.
-
-
- : >Graphics needs to be enhanced, including RTG and a 3D library (like SGIs
- : >have).
- :
- : PCI slot and 3D courtesy (sp?) of cybergfx4.0
- The 3D support has to be retargettable too (I don't know about cybergfx), but
- yes PCI is what we need.
-
- --
-
- Steve Hodge
- sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz
- Computer Science Dept, University of Waikato,
- Hamilton, New Zealand
-