| From: | Martin Baute |
| Date: | 14 Sep 2000 at 05:51:54 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Re: |
Hello Thomas
On 13-Sep-00, you wrote:
> Martin Baute wrote:
>> To avoid companies doing so (perhaps under pressure from Redmond),
>
> The Evil Forces in Redmond have control over Windows. This has nothing
> to do with x86, Linux, Intel, AMD or whatever, and probably the least of
> all with Amiga.
Interesting choice you made: x86, Linux (x86), Intel (x86), AMD (x86).
All those platforms supporting by, or supporting Windows. But the whole
idea of "ubiquity in computing" goes down the drain if x86 is the only
supported CPU (supported by professional software). If Microsoft, or
other big players, provide their future Ami software as x86 only, Ami
is limited to the x86 battlegrounds, where it will lose for sure.
That�s the issue I see.
Enforcing .00 to be present for "everything in the system", as Goetz
suggested, isn�t a sollution either: In embedded environments, memory
is sparse, and the will probably be native-only installations that make
perfect sense there. So the point where existance of .00 binaries could
be checked for is during installation of new software.
Problem is, companies could come up with installation systems of their
own, avoiding the .00 check.
Regards
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