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KennyR wrote:
Endianness.

For instance, a PPC AmigaOS can use emulated libs in a native app and vice versa. A x86 one never can. That means you could run IBrowse on a UAE layer in AROS, but not with native x86 Zune - you'd have to use emulated old 68k MUI libs too. Ask the AROS team the difficulties.

It depends on the environment. Amithlon can use x86 native binaries that call emulated 68k libs, and it can expose native x86 drivers to 68k applications.

It's not an issue when at least one environment is designed to work in conjunction with the other. For AROS it is a problem, because it was never designed to be able to use emulated 68k libraries, nor was it designed to expose AROS native libraries to emulated apps.
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Re: Be friends! Please!... Amiga and Genesi! I love you both!, but...
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2004, 01:53:05 AM »
@Kronos

I didn't say Amithlon was the way to a fully native x86-AOS, but it is an example of how x86 and 68k sides can mix, provided there is provision in the design to do so. AROS will have problem implementing this, because it has no provision for it, so while it will give pure native x86 performance, it may never integrate with the 68k side any more than running UAE does.

It's all irrelevant anyway, as I don't see any point in AmigaOS or Amiga-like operating systems any more. The reason? Too primitive and isolated. While something can be done about the primitive part, there is no chance of ever re-joining the mainstream markets.

This thread is another one of the examples of the self-destructive tendency within the community, which extends to the developers too. In a thread that should be about how to co-operate for everyone's benefit, what stands out is the stubborn "I'm right and you're wrong and you'll just have to live with being an outsider" attitude of most posters.

Delusional is the kindest reply I have to most comments here. Sad, but true.
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