Linked by Dmitar Butrovski on Wed 13th Sep 2006 16:04 UTC
It was 1997 and in these dark ages of the Amiga history, a few brave ones have embarked on a seemingly impossible journey. It is difficult to start from a clean slab, but complete rewrite of the AmigaOS Application Programming Interface (API), in open source domain, was the only option for Amiga community to gain control over destiny of the beloved platform. The Amiga Research Operating System (AROS) was born. Under, at times slow but steadfast progress, the vision is nearly complete. Not only is AROS almost feature-for-feature complete when compared to AmigaOS 3.x, but it has excelled many of the original design specifications.
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>>OS4 and MOS has become in less than 5 years much more features and native software (look at AROS Archives: only 69 Files avaible - OS4 on os4depot.net has 1027!!) than AROS will ever have.
And why does this please you? It seems that you perceive AROS to be some kind of threat, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. Even Hyperion are fine with AROS.
I can only think it's the closed-source mentality I mentioned. When you're listing OS4Depot's 1027 apps, it's worth remembering what it doesn't have. A potential developer can put AROS on an old machine and contribute to the pool of Amiga apps - that's OS 4, MorphOS AND AROS. I can't see how a small run of Troika boards will do the same.
>>And the best thing about AROS is: it is not binary compatible between other architectures. If you run AROS PPC and youre compiling any piece of software for it you can't run it on an x86 installation - WTF???
Are we still comparing it to the unavailable-PowerPC-systems-only AmigaOS4? Am I missing some clever irony?