| From: | Rafael Vicar�a Alloza |
| Date: | 28 Sep 2000 at 19:11:34 |
| 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 :-(,
Can't be otherwise, unless you run directly on the hardware, which is
what will happen if we don't distract Amiga with futile and hopeless
tasks.
> 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).
Get rid of the root cause, get rid of the roots of windoze
> Even Linux has it problems, and if the Linux code changes what impact
> would it have of the SDK.
It could have impact, but at least the changes are documented. Linux is
free. M$ is not, so you can't tell what has changed, unles you're
willing to reverse-engineer the M$ code, not a trivial task whatsoever.
> 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.
Sure! But the Amiga Dream Team is very busy on it now, I'm sure!
-8<- rest of the stuff and your overkill email disclaimer snipped->8-
Best regards
---Rafa
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