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Re: Trying to return to the Amiga after many years away!
« on: February 20, 2005, 12:24:57 PM »
@alx

This has been repeated ad nauseum, but it seems another time is
needed:

Writing SW system-friendly and even OS4-native has no relevance to the
SW being ready for full(real) MP.

The whole Amiga-API with it's open system-structures, pointers to
structures inluding pointers to structures including pointers.... with
message-passing done by poking into the other tasks memory and so on
is fundamently incompatible to MP, and a whole new set of APIs would
be needed to get MP.

One could either do it by boxing in the legacy-API (like done in OSX
and WinNT/XP), or hope that both worlds will work under 1 kernel
(Win95/98/ME).
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else