Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Sep 2002 20:26 UTC, submitted by Gareth
AROS, the AmigaOS clone which is being developed by Amiga enthousiasts, and who many regard it as the real future of the AmigaOS, now includes a simple WorkBench clone. Screenshots are available.
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Memory Protection did not make much sense for AmigaOS in 1985. First of all the initial CPU had no MMU.
I was once told by one of the original Amiga engineers that they could have added memory protection for IIRC $0.50 per machine, unfortunately Commodore were to cheap to include it.
Later when MP started to make inroads onto desktop platforms, AmigaOS still remained more stable. OSes like Windows were very unstable at the time, many blue screens of death and system lock-ups.
WIndows didn't get memory protection until NT. Win9x didn't ever have proper memory protection and consequently crashed at every possible opportunity - and ran like a snail compared to the Amiga, which had much lower end hardware when I changed.
However even without memory protection AmigaDOS (as it was then called) was a great deal more stable, programmers had become very careful and crashes were pretty rare.
BeOS was so good because JLG in part based it on the Amiga experience.
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AROS
These guys have dont a lot of great work, but if people are looking at this for a Desktop OS. They might wanna come back after 2 years or so. There still needs to be Apps developed for it and there still is no good userbase.
If AROS is an implementation of the Amiga API there will be dozens of apps, all they need is a re-compile. People seem to forget the Amiga has been around 17 years...
Me just got an A1000 :-D