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Offline Rob

Quote from: kolla;788150
No, AROS makes no clear break from legacy, on contrary, its main focus and goal is being legacy compatible.


AROS is only legacy compatible on 68k.  Elsewhere it is only API compatible so no reason not to fork it with any break from compatibility.
 

Offline Rob

Re: Hyperion Entertainment: Clarification of Current Situation
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2015, 08:05:59 PM »
Quote from: OlafS3;788157
He wants a completely new OS that breaks compatibility but has modern features. But which sense makes a OS without software? :confused:

It is a kind "showing what is possible" but for me the practical value would be limited


That was AROS x86 once.  Most AROS software is open source so if you branch AROS to support SMP, memory prrotection and so on you can probably adapt most of the software in a much shorter than it took to port to AROS in the first place.