| From: | NESL |
| Date: | 28 Sep 2000 at 15:00:03 |
| Subject: | RE: AMIOPEN: The Windoze SDK |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanjeev Massey [mailto:sanjeev.massey@jacobsrimell.com]
> Sent: 28 September 2000 12:13
> To: open@amiga.com
> Subject: Re: AMIOPEN: The Windoze SDK
>
>
> This maybe a possibility but I would have thought that the
> Amiga SDK would use the hosted OS facilities to do low level
> stuff like screen redraws, TCP/IP, networking etc, ala JAVA.
> Thus easing installation and configuration.
>
Then that would mean the true performance of the VP and the OS/OE
is subject to host OS code performance :-(, surely if the new Amiga OS/OE
is to succeed and gain support it needs discard those old,slow inefficent
pieces of code (plenty of that in Windoze).
Even Linux has it problems, and if the Linux code changes what impact
would it have of the SDK.
If a platform indepent version of the SDK was created that VP drivers could
be developed for the new OS/OE without the overhead of translation to
Windoze,
Linux OS calls.
I know its a big job but the tao-group said a VP module could be developed
in 14-days,
and well the time it took to convert Quake :-), I'm sure they could quickly.
Just think
a SDK with a platform independent OS/OE across x86,PPC,ARM and more within
possibly months
instead of MS years.
> A totally independant enviroment would have to provide
> services itself thus Amiga will have to create a more complex
> installer to get the information for the SDK runtime. Paging
> out an OS fo run another OS is currently available through
> VMWare, which lets you run Linux within Windows. I think
> think they also hold some patent preventing others to do the
> same. BTW has anyone tried running Amiga OS under
> WMware/Linux on Windows?
>
> Sanj
>
> "Horner, Grahame (NESL)" wrote:
>
> > If the complier VP code is truely platform independent, why
> not develope a
> > small SDK enviroment using the Linux SDK, that runs under
> its own OS which
> > can co-exist with all Windoze, *nix clones and Mac OSes. Maybe on a
> > different partition or a file with a native code program to
> page out the
> > other OS and load the platform indepenent SDK enviroment.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Sanjeev Massey [mailto:sanjeev.massey@jacobsrimell.com]
> > > Sent: 28 September 2000 10:39
> > > To: open@amiga.com
> > > Subject: Re: AMIOPEN: The Windoze SDK
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Maybe windoze will not be as efficient in running the SDK as
> > > Linux, but the Windows environment may
> > > bring in more developers. Few people have the time or
> > > resources to install Linux to just run the
> > > SDK.
> > >
> > > Sanj
> > >
> > > Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Claus Luethje wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Of course, it remains my own opinion that this is a
> > > tremendously wrong
> > > > and self destructive decision for Amiga Inc. I still
> think it's a
> > > > complete waste of commitment, time, money and resources that is
> > > > especially disapointing in light of the total lack of
> > > promised legacy
> > > > Amiga support. But that's been said, too.
> > >
> >
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