Amiwest interview with thomas frieden

[Peggus]

For those of you with slow connections who can't download the large audio MP3 file, here's a synopsis of the Thomas Frieden interview.


I just listen to the amiwest interview with Thomas Frieden.

Here are some of the more significant things that were said during the intervoew...

The ExecSG is practically completed.

There's still heavy work being done on Intuition

The TCP/IP stack is practially finnished, it is one of the fatsest TCP/IP stacks ever implemented on the Amiga.

Developing is done on classic systems.

The hardware abstraction layer is still in flux, once it's nailed down getting OS 4 running on the A-one hardware will take a week or two.

The reason why a lot of the OS4.2 features are being implemented in OS4.0 is because the resposiveness of the system would have suffered if these features where to be run under 68k emulation.

They are aiming for a skinnable os eventually but OS4 will just be configurable similar to visualprefs birdie magic menu. etc.
 
The bootscreen and bootmenu will remain in OS4

Virtual memory is being implemented from scratch by Thomas. They're not using existing solutions due to responsiveness.

Thomas is fairly sure OS4 will be released before the end of the year.

Now don't take my word on any of the above, it's what I remember of the interview. I may have missunderstood some points or confused some things..

[Peggus]

Either their definition of a HAL( or what can be called OS4) is quite

Then tell us, what is your definition of a HAL?

[Peggus]

So either they mean that they will need two weeks after they finished
the HAL(including A1-drivers), which would allready be quite optimistic,
or they think they could write the low.level-drivers in two weeks, which
is an outright joke.

I'm glad to see you know what you're talking about. It's a rare event on many forums.

Being a hardwareengineer myself I have to agree with you, it does seem overly optimistic to move the entire HAL from phase5 hardware to A1 in just 2 weeks.