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AmigaOS 4
sime:
Hey Bouncing Ayatollah,
How's it going, sweet pics. I miss my Amiga she was a honey :D
Sorry not been in touch, work, work, work, work...
21 12 hour shifts in the last 23 days looks like @ least 3 weeks to go. Still make hay while the sun shines...
Hark I hear the dinging of a cash register form upon far!
I'll give ya a call when the contract ends
Later my friend
Sime
BouncingAyatollah:
@sime
Cheers for that, I've been a bit busy too...
I miss the Amiga way of doing things, but the Classic Amiga is not fast enough now for number crunching tasks.
No IRQs, no "you must restart", no blue screens, you "install" something usually by unarchiving it and putting it somewhere and uninstall it by errr... deleting it, no registry, no "hidden files", no Spyware, no "scanning for new hardware" just plug it in and switch on, no stuttering sound and skipping video as "just the way it is", no floppy drive that goes WAGGADAGGADAGGA! and freezes the WHOLE machine for a couple of seconds, no CD spin-up that freezes the whole machine (again), add a program to startup by dropping it in Wbstartup and remove it by moving it out of Wbstartup and so on... and if you want the command line you have the AmigaShell. It just ... works.
AmigaOS4 is undeniably a "catch up" release, hopefully by 4.1, 4.2 and the mythical completely new approach of OS5 (if it happens) AmigaOS will again be a feasible option with some real grunt under the bonnet.
When I watched the video mentioned in these forums of Yellowtab Zeta (playing 5 mpegs simultaneously and an MP3 at the same time) I thought "YEAH! That's what I thought it would be like when I got the first P233 machine...". I simply couldn't understand how a machine that had SO MUCH horsepower could be soooo slow, let alone my 2GHz PC which is still thrown by a floppy disk.
bigsleep:
The Amiga OS used to be contained in a ROM, in order to upgrade it you had to install a new ROM chip (or burn a new image to it). I don't know if it's still done this way, but I thought that was a smart way to do it.
hm_murdock:
nobody does it like that anymore. Even Apple doesn't use the Mac ROM anymore. ROMs are loaded into RAM from a file on the HD, and that's only in the classic OS. OS X doesn't do that.
Since AmigaOS 4 runs on very similar boards to Power Macs, with really nothing more than OpenFirmware boot ROMs, I'm betting that Amiga doesn't have their ROM either.
Besides... Amiga OS 4 is built on the Linux kernel I believe.
As for some of the more high-performance abilities, I do believe Mac OS 8.6 and 9.x both are able to play multiple videos simultaneously without much problem... let me restart to 9 and see!
[ August 30, 2003: Message edited by: Jimmy James is COOL ]
Laukev7:
quote: Besides... Amiga OS 4 is built on the Linux kernel I believe.
--- End quote ---
No. It was supposed to built on QNX, before Amiga was a corporation in its own right, I believe, but now I think they just ported the Workbench code to PPC.
There is, however, a BeOS clone based on the Linux kernel, called Blue Eyed OS.
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