OS4 rollout schedule

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Were you really expecting it before then?!

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@Hans:



 :-D Thats a great new avatar, but isn't the light sabre the wrong colour?  ;-)  :-P

Heres a couple of ideas:

Red


"Boing"


 :-D

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My point was, AOS4 needs AOS3.1(?) to boot the Amiga and then the new subsystems come into play.

No it doesn't. Thats a strange conclusion. OS4 is based on OS3.1 sources, and some parts of those won't be changed, but that doesn't mean it NEEDS OS3.1 to boot the Amiga. Thats like saying Photoshop 7 needs Photoshop 6 to start up, then 7 takes over, because they took the Photoshop 6 code and updated it. Its simply not true; Photoshop 7 is just Photoshop 7. OS4 is just OS4.

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bloodline wrote:
ok... bad turn of phrase... but you're a clever bloke you must know what I was saying....

Well, I wasn't meaning to imply that you were bashing OS4, it just seemed like a strange conclusion to draw. When you said "...like AROS did in the early Amiga version", i figured you meant like it actually needed components from OS3.1 to be installed on top of OS4, which would be strange ;-)

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Does the manufacturer HAVE to ship OS4 with the board or can the end user say "I don't want OS4 thanks" and therefore pay less?

Hasn't Ben already said, in many places, that if a customer asks for OS4 they ship a board with OS4, otherwise they get a board that can't run OS4?

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mdma wrote:
What I meant in my previous post, was that the 68k ASM stuff that you had to rewrite in C, could have been taken from the AROS code to be used as a base and modified until it suited you.

You're assuming that using AROS code would have saved them time; but just because AROS fairly compatible to AmigaOS, doesn't mean that modules from its source code would slot easily into the actual AmigaOS source tree. This is not necessarily the case.

The fact is that all the people on these forums saying "Hyperion could have done this to save time", or "I expect OS4 will be out by xyz" really have no clue because they AREN'T involved with the project, they have NO access to the sourcecode repositry, they don't know exactly what Hyperion have done, plan to do, or are in the process of doing, and therefore might as well pick their estimates entirely at random...

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The Amiga world isn't anything like the Star Wars world; in Star Wars there are lots of walkers, in the Amiga world, the walker was scrapped  :-D