My AmigaOS 3.2 wishlist!

[First Ninja]

HammerD,

great thread! While I won't comment your suggestions, I can tell you a couple of things:

• The OS distribution that Haage & Partner released 20 years ago is a thing of the past. If you want to be nice, it can be described as a few (quality) improvements beneath a bloated mess of patches third party software. OS 3.1.4 has picked up the work where Commodore left the source code, and OS 3.2 further builds on that legacy. Unlike Haage & Partners' efforts, OS 3.2 is AmigaOS Done Right. Although I can't tell you if Release 3.2's final feature set will fully overlap previous ambitions, I can reaffirm what Gulliver has hinted at; it'll be well worth the upgrade, and it'll set a whole new standard for MC680x0 based Amiga computers. Once AmigaOS 3.2 is released, I hope it'll be the one version you'll rely on and have installed.
• Please keep those suggestions coming! Even though there's no guarantee that any of them will show up in the final release, chances are that some of them will be picked up if you plead your case in a thorough manner (which I think you do, by the way).

[First Ninja]

There is no "bloated mess of patches", it is just upgraded versions of system components, same as any other AmigaOS version. It was a worthwhile upgrade done by some very competent coders and I see no reason to denigrate their work.

While Haage & Partner's distribution certainly is a lot more than just an upgraded set of system components, the work that the individual developers put into that particular part of the distribution shouldn't be downplayed in any way - quite the contrary. Thank you for pointing it out.