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Re: One unified OS for the future?
« on: November 20, 2014, 10:03:30 AM »
Quote from: spirantho;777802
That's another question - is MorphOS with a new SMP API, a new ISA and no binary compatibility with 68k Amiga or PPC MorphOS actually MorphOS at all? Or is it another OS by the same developers?


If Amiga OS4 can be Amiga OS, while running on a completely different, utterly incompatible platform to the previous versions, only offering native support to a tiny fraction of Amiga software, I don't see why not.
 

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Re: One unified OS for the future?
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2014, 06:37:15 PM »
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In a sense, you are advocating to repeat the same error as before, namely trying to establish a hardware platform.

There are tons of off-the-shelf ARM-based boards available, some cheaper than dining out, so there is no need to "establish a hardware platform". I tend to agree that ARM isn't the right way, but that argument just seems to have no basis in fact.