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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Member since:2006-03-22
"You are dealing with absolutes, always bad. There where lots of people who doubted that Linux would ever have more apps then Irix or Solaris but look at where we are now. You shouldn't underestimate the motivation of the people working on AROS."
Oh man, you can't compare Linux with AROS. Linux is just an Kernel and AROS is an whole OS! AROS is going in competition with AOS4 and MOS and not with Linux, Windows, Zeta and others.
Linux had the advantage that it comes with GNU OSS Software which makes it comparable to Sinix or other Unix derivates which were popular back in the mid 90's - but damn expensive!
"Dude do you know what you're asking for? What do you want? AROS VM? AROS universal binaries? Do you know how ugly those solutions are? No, I'm happy the way it works now."
Yeah i know. But this is something people expect from an OS which runs on more than one CPU Architecture!!
Member since:2006-09-14
"Dude do you know what you're asking for? What do you want? AROS VM? AROS universal binaries? Do you know how ugly those solutions are? No, I'm happy the way it works now."
Yeah i know. But this is something people expect from an OS which runs on more than one CPU Architecture!!
Could Linux PPC execute executables of Linux i386? Is Linux an OS that runs on more than one CPU Architecture?
Could Windows64 execute executables of Windows i386? Is Windows an OS that runs on more than one CPU Architecture?
Member since:2005-07-07
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2006-01-16
>>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.
You are dealing with absolutes, always bad. There where lots of people who doubted that Linux would ever have more apps then Irix or Solaris but look at where we are now. You shouldn't underestimate the motivation of the people working on AROS.
>>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???
Dude do you know what you're asking for? What do you want? AROS VM? AROS universal binaries? Do you know how ugly those solutions are? No, I'm happy the way it works now.