Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Nov 2005 20:02 UTC, submitted by fylfot
"Comparing AmigaOS and RISC OS is an interesting exercise, especially when it provides inspiration for things like scripting languages, friendly internationalisation configuration, and transparent file format handling. However it also shows areas where RISC OS is grossly under-selling features we take for granted every day, but are seen as almost revolutionary elsewhere: For instance, being efficient on a sub-1GHz RISC CPU, anti-aliased fonts, supporting virtual disc labels, using a RAM-based temporary disc, and providing an iconbar."
Thread beginning with comment 54695
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2005-07-06
The Amiga had a widely distributed free library called ixemul.library for posix support. It allowed most posix programs to be ported to the Amiga easily. What held back ports was not posix, but X Windows. There were only a couple X11 drivers for the Amiga, and they weren't very good or widely distributed.
Amiga had a third party multiuser library, but it wasn't used much as most Amigas were just used by one person. In fact, virtually all computers are still set up as single user. In more than 20 years, I've never set up a single computer to have more than one user, and never seen a single computer set for more than one user.
AROS does support the 68K processor, but almost no 68K systems. The only real 68K system currently in AROS is the old 68K PalmOS, and that hasn't been checked in quite some time and may no longer work right. It is thought 68K linux may work, but no one has tried it. There is a bounty for doing AROS in UAE as a replacement for an actual Amiga KS ROM.
AROS currently works in linux on PPC. I have Fedora Core 4 installed on my iMac, and AROS works on it nicely. There was work on a native PPC AROS on the Peg1 board, but that has since stopped.