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- From: fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga Operating System Re-write
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 03:42:13 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- Dennis Lee Bieber (wulfraed@kd6mog.netcom.com) wrote:
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- : In article <9601242233.AA0007o@redalert.demon.co.uk> Justin Lane <justin@redalert.demon.co.uk> writes:
- : > I read in a magazine a long time ago that some Amiga coders were
- : > getting together to write a more up to date version of the Amiga
- : > OS (I do not mean Amiga Technologies).
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- bad idea. what's the aim ? we need development in the gfx sector,
- efficient chunky gfx on both vanilla A1200 and future PPC.
- or writing efficient 14bit audio players.
- or writepixelarray8 patches for chiset amigas.
- or or....
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- but not rewriting what works fine for years....
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- : >
- : How long ago?
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- : The first of this would likely have been the ARP collection (AmigaDOS
- : Replacement Project, I believe).
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- there's a difference between rewriting the dir command and rewriting the
- dos.library!
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- : Also, the 1.x BCPL code was, as I recall, converted to C with the 2.x
- : release
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- : --
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- : > ============================================================ <
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