Why Am I excited about Icaros?

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stefcep2 wrote:

ChaosLord wrote:

persia wrote:
AROS ... locks it's developments into the late '80s/early '90s."  

Really?

People used 1280x1024 16 million color workbenches in the late 80's and early 90s?

People ran 2000 Mhz CPUs in the late 80's and early 90s?

People used 3000 MB of RAM in the late 80's and early 90s?

I didn't know any of that happened.  You must know a lot more about computer history than me.

these are merely hardware advancements.  AmigaOS supported 32 bit color screens in 1280x1024 since the early 90's, like wise 16 (24 bit as well?) bit audio through AHI, and upto 768 MB ram ( at least?).  For a system built in 1983 thats decent, even in todays hardware terms, when you consider how quickly hardware specs become obsolete.

People harp on about memory protection.  Back in the day, the most tangible outcome of this lack on the Amiga was that badly written program could bring the entire system down as each programs could occupy the memory space of another one.  But most programmers learned to write their software so that this didn't happen nowhere as much as you might think.  The security advantages of memory protection are over-hyped as memory protection is no guarantee to a secure system anyway:  Look at every incarnation of windows that has had memory protection: its THE most insecure system on the planet, always needing to be patched to cover this hole and that hole.  The underlying problem is that home OS's like AmigaOS and Windows and MacOS before it became a Unix GUI is that these OS's were never meant to be used on giant multi-suer networks like the internet, and this where most of the security flaws result.  Conversely as a home computer OS the Amiga has huge advantages in ease of usability ( eg you NEVER NEED to open a shell if you don't want, Linux/Unix REQUIRES you to do it at LEAST some of the time), GUI speed, wonderfully-smooth multi-tasking, fast boot up time. Why can't these things be implemented as well in a system with memory protection?  Does memory protection require the sacrifice of these things?  Why does a core2duo running at 2.8 ghz with 3 gig ram stutter to draw a left mouse click menu just because its loading a web page?

There's still a  lot to like about AmigaOS, and computer OS's haven't come forward nowhere near as much as the hardware they run on.  In fact Windows, Mac And Linux OS programmers should be ashamed.

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