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- From: cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA (Chris Gray)
- Subject: Re: OS features
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- In article <4csn1g$ibm@thebes.waikato.ac.nz> sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz
- (Stephen B Hodge) writes:
-
- > I think the only way to go is to toss the OS completely. Now is the perfect
- > opportunity to come out with a killer OS the doesn't contain the artifacts
- > that the current OS has (eg OldOpenLibrary() et al). With the move to a
- > PowerPC platform much of the OS will need to be rewritten anyway, such as
- > Exec and Graphics, and since ideally it should all be PowerPC native I think
- > that it is better to start from scratch so that features such as memory
- > protection and RTG can be included.
- >
- > To do this, and retain compatibilty and also get a machine to the market as
- > fast as possible the current OS will need to be ported to PowerPC, but I
- > think it is pointless to try to add things such as memory protection to
- > it now. What I think AT should do is to port OS3.1 to PPC and then write
- > a new (largely incompatible) OS that resembles AmigaDOS but contains the
- > features that an OS is expected to have now.
-
- I hate people that copy most of a posting and then just add "Me too!", but
- what the heck...
-
- I agree with this. In fact, if something like that doesn't happen, and a
- reasonably priced PPC Amiga with decent graphics doesn't come out in a
- year or two, I'll probably switch to some other platform. I currently
- have 5 Amiga's, and have been putting out shareware and PD programs for
- them since 1986, so I'm the kind of customer AT should want to keep.
-
- The BeBox sounds neat, but I refuse to program in C++. I strongly
- recommend that anyone thinking of using C++ read the annotated reference
- manual first. It is a very large, very inconsistent, very dangerous, and
- hard to read language. IHMO, of course!
-
- --
- Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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