| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 2 Apr 2001 at 16:10:04 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcements - any questions? |
hi,
> By splitting OS4 and the DE in two, and tying OS4 to PPC that seals its fate.
OS4.0 != AmigaDE
the AmigaDE is still going to run ontop of Windows, Linux, MacOS etc...
OS4.0 is the further progression of the classic AmigaOS line.... AmigaDE
will run ontop of AmigaOS 4.2 .
> As Mikey C said, in this way it remains a minority OS in a backwater. It also
I have an interesting stat page...
http://stats.distributed.net/ogr-25/platformlist.php3?view=tco
from this you can see exactly where in the backwater AmigaOS sits :-)
> better than the current crop of JVMs? One of the earlier strengths stated of
> the DE was the ready back catalogue of classic line software. Now, it seems
> this "great strength" is lost. Are the wheels finally coming off.
they said there'd be a classic emulation layer in the AmigaDE. I dont
recall them withdrawing this effort. But if all you want is access to
classic Apps, then UAE is still the way. I guess someone can come along
with an AmigaIntution.dll and allow Amiga stuff to run as if its native
(Like WINE does under Linux). you get different looking windows etc, but
all the chip/cpu/intuition emulation is hidden from view.
> Sorry if all this sounds a bit negative, but I think it`s only realism :/
k
theres always a lot of -ve stuff after big announcements, people want the
moon on a stick they do! :-)
alan
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