| From: | Jim Peters |
| Date: | 13 Sep 2000 at 16:20:40 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Re: |
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:39:59PM +0100, Martin Baute wrote:
> > As others wrote, it works otherways. I'd just like to draw attention again
> > on that it would be quite dangerous if it (so not to include VP code)
> > would become usual. (If even possible/ not illegal.) Imagine if many
> > serious and important application would come out with only native code for
> > only one CPU, (mostly x86)...
>
> To avoid companies doing so (perhaps under pressure from Redmond),
> there should be some way for the OS to _enforce_ the presence of
> .00 (VP) binaries in any installation archive. However I don�t have any
> way of enforcing this at hand.
This is all nonsense. It's not an Ami program if it doesn't have VP
binaries - it would be an Ami/x86 or Ami/PowerPC program, and the
supplier would be throwing away a huge chunk of their market for no
good reason. Surely the idea is to allow the supplier to provide
native binaries to give performance or feature gains on particular
platforms, falling back on the VP binaries everywhere else ?
The power of this VP thing is that Amiga can change the processor in
their boxes every year (they have expressed this intention). No sane
software company is going to lock themselves into this year's model,
especially when it means more work for them.
Jim