31 Aug
2010
31 Aug
'10
4:45 p.m.
On 8/31/10 6:24 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 27 August 2010 16:09, Brian Lanning<brianlanning
at gmail.com> wrote:
MorphOS is *not* freeware. It's free to download, but if it's not
registered (at a price of 111 EURO) it "slows down" after 30 minutes of
operation.
Doc Shipley
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/ 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.