morphos vs amiga os4

[KennyR]

Floppy support is the least important thing right now. Floppies are dead. MOS will probably never support them - the catweasel is there for them and does the job *much* better anyway.

[KennyR]

I haven't used a floppy disk on a PC for about five years. And that's what the floppy drive is on a Pegasos and A1 - a PC drive. With a maximum of 1.44MB, what exactly can you fit on it? I might want to read my Amiga disks now and again for emulator purposes, but the floppy controller on A1 and Pegasos is useless for that anyway. A catweasel would still be needed. All my data transfer these days is on CDRW or via the internet. Floppy disk is almost totally useless to me.

It comes down to this. Development time is precious. I'd rather see it spent on improving parts of MOS that are useful rather than bits nobody ever uses.

[KennyR]

Indeed floppy is far the best and most perfect solution for transfer,
I am so ********* *** ***** tired of swapping harddrives and burning
cds and even emailing myself every time i need any tiny little file,
that floppy support should be there ASAP.

Oh come on, what do you transfer, text files? Of all the MOS owners I know, absolutely none of them is interested in floppy support. To transfer big files you'd need to archive and span, which is even more trouble than burning a CD.

At 1.44MB a disk at 21KB/S (crunch crunch), we view pretty much view the floppy disk the same as the audio tape - dead, dead, DEAD. We simply do not want the MOS developers to waste their time on it when MOS needs so many real things.

[KennyR]

Well, what use are Word files on a Pegasos? And what's better than the net for transferring jpg? And anyway, it's been a while since I've seen a Word file or a decent quality jpeg below the 1.44MB size.

[KennyR]

So if a classic app in AmigaOS crushes then all the system goes down?

( I mean heavy crush like the ones that crush AmigaOS 3.9, not the crushes that you don`t need to reboot.)

Of course. AmigaOS4 is not a memory protected system, and never can be if you want to run Amiga apps on it. Unless you go the sandbox route, that is, which MOS has already done.