Amiwest interview with thomas frieden

[Kronos]

Is there any info about the plans for MorphOS (feature list, future, etc)?

There is a JVM in development (by Thendic), and that is something
I would prefer to the ability of playing PlanetZed on a desktop  :-P

R.S. and his team have said several times that they wouldn't announce
anything before it is ready (atleast as long as MorphOS1.0 isn't released)
and the Radeon-driver is a good example.

You should also keep in mind that it will quite a while before DE/divx/flash/??
are really finished and intregrated in OS4 (just look at the time AInc and
Hyperion needed to get where they are right now).

[Kronos]

The ExecSG is practically completed.

More or less the same than said 3/4/5 months ago ....

The TCP/IP stack is practially finnished

And has been since last year  ;-)

 

The hardware abstraction layer is still in flux,

Wasn't that one of the 1st things that should have been done ?

once it's nailed down getting OS 4 running on the A-one hardware will take a week or two.

Either their definition of a HAL( or what can be called OS4) is quite
different from mine (which would mean more work) or they are simple
unrealistic.

Thomas is fairly sure OS4 will be released before the end of the year.

See you next year  :-P

[Kronos]

@Peggus

A HAL is the layer between the OS and it's API and the actual device-
drivers.
Take CGX/P96 for example:
On the one side you have the gfx/layers-replacement libs, and on the
other side you have the divers for the actual cards. The definition
of how these two interact with each other is the HAL.

The OS4-HAL would define one generic PCI/IDE-driver, but the
actual low-level-drivers for the A1 or the A1200/4000 are not really
a part of it.

So either they mean that they will need two weeks after they finished
the HAL(including A1-drivers), which would allready be quite optimistic,
or they think they could write the low.level-drivers in two weeks, which
is an outright joke.