Memory Protection AGAIN

[warpdesign]

I agree, it's the only way to remain truely compatible while freeing the OS from stone age technology.

The thing is: how many OS9.x software people are using with MacOSX now ?

And what do we want ? Being able to run transparently IBrowse which only handles tables, or FireFox in a new clean box ?

I don't get why people are so attached to running software from *stone*! Emulators/Sandboxes are there for that... There's no question of program that asks for memory protection... That's pure nonsense and loss of time...

[warpdesign]

But thats not the question, the question is how many OS9 app (or 68k apps back when PPC was introduced) were people running when the 1st switched to OSX ?

Seeing how difficult to make it run (you needed a true copy of OS9.x, etc...), I guess not that much.
And I would add to that: how long did they use it before switching to OSX native equivalent apps ?

And when did developer switch to OSX ? As soon as they saw the benefits from using it...

[warpdesign]

3) New OS with classic emulator, free of memory management, etc problems. Give this a couple years for software to catch up.

This OS is there: it's call MorphOS. The only problem is that the focus is made on the classic environment instead of a new envvironment which would benefit of all new features...

4) Move to Intel hardware with compatibility layer...

No, because Intel sucks, and Intel is evil (for me this is ironic...)

[warpdesign]

MorphOS' q-box has full memory protection? I haven't heard anything about the q-box in years. AFAIK, all the development has been for the a-box (i.e., classic Amiga environment).

That's what I was saying... development is focused on the abox (classic env). And that's too bad, because everything is already the for the memory protection,...