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Re: OS for the X1000
« Reply #89 from previous page: August 07, 2011, 04:44:30 PM »
Quote from: xeron;653524
Hint: OS4 is a continuation of the OS commodore shipped with the Amiga, based on the same source code base.


Exactly which AOS source codes were used in OS4?  We all know the OS4 kernel is not based on Amiga IP.   I seem to remember court docs stating that Hyperion didn't use any of Amiga Inc's IP because it was assembly and was useless.  I'm interested to hear exactly what Amiga Inc IP was used in what portion of OS4.
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Re: OS for the X1000
« Reply #90 on: August 07, 2011, 05:00:03 PM »
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Exactly which AOS source codes were used in OS4?

DOS, Intuition, Graphics, the GUI system(s), Workbench, Shell and pretty much all other core components, except Exec.

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I'm interested to hear exactly what Amiga Inc IP was used in what portion of OS4.

I'm guessing, DOS was used in... (thinks very hard...) DOS maybe? I don't get that question.
 

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Re: OS for the X1000
« Reply #91 on: August 07, 2011, 05:12:17 PM »
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Windows did run on a 286.   Windows 95 might not have but Windows 1 - 3.1 most certainly did.
Well yeah, but that was kind of the whole point. Windows up to 3.1 was fundamentally a 16-bit OS (Win32 extensions for 3.1 notwithstanding,) and thus it was perfectly feasible for it to run on a 286 (though I don't recall if it ever made use of the 286's protected mode - not a lot did, aside from OS/2 and Xenix.) Windows 95 on the other hand was the first real step forward for the OS, using 386 protected mode to provide some actual process separation and memory protection (albeit not very well-handled) in a potentially greatly-expanded memory space.

xeron's point, if I'm not mistaken, was that OS4 is similarily a step forward from OS3.x and is not backwards-compatible for similar reasons. Not sure I agree 100%, but his analogy was sound; buzzfuzz's wasn't.
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Re: OS for the X1000
« Reply #92 on: August 07, 2011, 05:44:11 PM »
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Well yeah, but that was kind of the whole point. Windows up to 3.1 was fundamentally a 16-bit OS (Win32 extensions for 3.1 notwithstanding,) and thus it was perfectly feasible for it to run on a 286 (though I don't recall if it ever made use of the 286's protected mode - not a lot did, aside from OS/2 and Xenix.) Windows 95 on the other hand was the first real step forward for the OS, using 386 protected mode to provide some actual process separation and memory protection (albeit not very well-handled) in a potentially greatly-expanded memory space.
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No, I dealt in the retail market before and after Win3 was introduced. A 386SX was the minimum requirement. Tandy even released a 1000 with the 386SX processor just to address this demand.

Quote from: commodorejohn;653548
xeron's point, if I'm not mistaken, was that OS4 is similarily a step  forward from OS3.x and is not backwards-compatible for similar reasons.  Not sure I agree 100%, but his analogy was sound; buzzfuzz's  wasn't.

Not at all a good analogy. The 286 and 386 were part of the same processor line. A 68K and a PPC are completely unrelated. 386s can run earlier X86 code. PPCs do not run 68K code without re-interpretation.
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