31 Aug
2010
31 Aug
'10
4:24 p.m.
On 27 August 2010 16:09, Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Christian Liendo
<christian_liendo at yahoo.com> wrote:
It's been done. It's called AROS, the Amiga Research OS.
http://aros.sourceforge.net/
I've played with it. It's pretty good. Needs more volunteers & more
input, but it's getting there. I believe that these days it not only
runs, is source-code compatible with AmigaOS, runs Amiga apps in an
emulator, but it also has functional TCP/IP and USB stacks and a
usable web browser, so it's heading towards being a usable OS.
What it *doesn't* have is multiuser security, memory protection,
virtual memory support and other modern niceties that people are used
to.
Similar projects:
- MorphOS, closed-source freeware, runs on PowerPC hardware only.
http://www.morphos-team.net/
- AmigaOS 4, closed-source commercial, runs on PowerPC hardware only,
but based on original Amiga sources.
http://hyperion-entertainment.biz/
Less directly related:
- AtheOS started out as AmigaOS-inspired but diverged. FOSS but a
one-man project by Kurt Skauen. Immensely impressive for a
single-handed effort.
http://atheos.cx/
- Syllable, a fork of Atheos when its author moved on to other projects. FOSS.
http://web.syllable.org/pages/index.html
Both are x86-32 OSs with SMP and memory protection and VM, but they
are no longer Amiga-like in any significant way.
Not related but in the same ballpark:
- Haiku, a FOSS rewrite of BeOS. x86-32, small, clean, elegant and
fast, and far more modern than AmigaOS: has memory protection, virtual
memory and is SMP-aware. Does not have multiuser security, though.
http://www.haiku-os.org/
There are a lot of interesting little modern GUI OSs for commodity x86
hardware out there. There is even a FOSS clone of Windows called
ReactOS, which is damned impressive but seems to me to be [a] kinda
missing the point of FOSS and [b] just asking to be obliterated by MS
as soon as it reaches the point where it is the remotest kind of
threat.
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the 64 now means 64Bit Computer... Er ehm...
yea..
Here's an inside pic:
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/commodore-computers-make-a-return-this-y…
I think these will be a flop. ?What OS will they run? ?Windows?
Linux? ?The new AmigaOS?
What would really be neat is take some middle to high-end modern
hardware with high end graphics and sound hardware, and write a new
minimalist OS similar to the AmigaOS from scratch in machine language
with as little extra crap as possible.