Star AROS With a WorkBench Clone Now Available
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Sep 2002 20:26 UTC, submitted by Gareth
Amiga & AROS 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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Re: It's a Good Thread
by Mike Bouma on Sat 14th Sep 2002 16:20 UTC

> BTW, please, don't blame me for flaming, but I really
> have to ask this: an emulated solution faster than a
> native one?

Yes one emulator used in the AmigaOS XL package uses special JIT emulation techniques (still estimated to be only around 40-60% of the performance compared to a native AmigaOS port, would it exist), this combined with the efficiency of the *original* 68K AmigaOS and the fact that emulator uses native x86 drivers and can use native x86 Amiga applications, it truly *is* alot faster and a much more feature complete solution than AROS currently.

Note that this emulator sits on top of a small optimised x86 kernel and is not running on top of a bloated OS like Windows.