Amiga OS - Why on custom architecture?

[Noster]

Hi,

@Doppie1200
> Who needs a true amiga system these days?

Who needs a computer at home? It's nice to have and to play/work with it. And to work with a real Amiga is somehow more fun/uncomplicated than using Win#*?&%$§" XP.
I've never bought a computer in the last 20 years, because it was usefull in any way. I always bought computers, because the machines and their usage/programming is so interesting. The Amiga is much easier to program than a Win#*%&§$ machine. I could do anything on an Amiga, no restrictions by the OS.
Ok, call me a fanatic but I still think the Amiga is the better system for home-use.

When I have the money, I will buy an A1 to work and play with it.

My only problem is the browser, more and more Internet sides are not readable with the Amiga any more, even eBay has changed their sides in the last week, so the sides are not displayed correct any more :-( Why do everything has to be changed in the IT-world, even the already perfect running things?

@gafstu
> Why not build the Amiga OS to run on a IBM PC style architecture?

Thought about big endian <-> little endian?

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[Noster]

Hi,

> everyone makes such a big deal about endianism and its really not that bad. as in the case of aros the entire os is being rewritten from the ground up.

You said it "writing from the ground up". I think Hyperion doesn't wanted to rewrite the whole OS, they wanted to use as much of the original source as possible to keep the project cheap enough so it doesn't become a total financial failure.

> any old software can ... be ... recompiled if the source code is availlable.

If the programm wasn't written with the thought about little endian it might be very hard to change the code (e.g. reading structures from disk). Linux is build from the base with the big endian/little endian problem in mind. Every Linux-program respects this problem and uses according macros to read and write words and longwords (some doesn't do and that ones are hard to port).

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