New improved intuition.library version from the Kickstart 3.1

[NorthWay]

I don't see what's so special about OS3.1.

It is the most obvious choice to me, and I applauded AROS when they finally dropped all their pie-in-the-sky ideas and went for a down to earth choice which you could actually measure and compare with the yardstick.

3.1 is the last official C= release, and the last combined ROM+disk release. The more recent releases have no big API updates anyway, and a whole lot less status among the congregation (no offence Olsen and the rest).

(Oh, and I liked ClassAct, but that is another discussion.)

[NorthWay]

Actually 3.1 was released by Village Tronic, not Commodore.

For me, as a developer, it was released by Commodore. For the general public it might have been distributed by someone else, but it was still a Commodore product.

Not that there is anything sacred about Commodore.

Of course there is. After they died there haven't been anyone who has been universally agreed upon to hold all the rights to the fallen empire. If someone had stepped in and taken command then I would have agreed.

I don't see the relevance of whether the ROM upgrade is performed in firmware or software.

True(partially), but then again the 3.5/3.9 releases didn't really update the ROM parts much so not so much of a upgrade to the ROM contents? The Amiga being what it is is also more vulnerable the more of the code that lives in ram instead of rom, but I'm not suggesting to limit updates because of that.

Yes they do, obviously you haven't read the autodocs.

Touche. I'm sure I quickly browsed them when it was released. Can't have been much of interest to me if it didn't register. I obviously haven't done much Amiga side in the recent years (all of my machines have died on me now - bah).