What if everyone used AOS4, the rockin' debate and information revealing thread

[Trev]

Yes, memory protection. Multiple/multicore and 64-bit processors. Modern interconnects. Virtualization. Stability and scalability.

AmigaOS doesn't have to be general purpose if it doesn't want to be; however, you can't do much as a special purpose operating environment without a solid hardware platform.

[Trev]

I don't see why memory protection would have to kill backward compatibility or necessarily make the system slower. What you might kill is interoperability between legacy and current software, but even that could be mitigated with the right design.

EDIT: What I really want is OS4+ on the PS3 or some other Cell-based platform.

[Trev]

@weirdami

Regarding hardware, you could port Half-Life to the C64, but you'd be bound by the speed of the processor and the limitations of the audio and video subsystems and main system memory. With enough storage, there's nothing that would prevent a port or even a full simulation. The user experience, though, would be quite horrible.