MorphOS 2 vs. AmigaOS 4.1 (pros/cons)

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@skurk

Does anyone know if the AOS4.x and MOS2.x binaries are interchangeable?

They are not binary compatible with each others. There is OS4Emu which adds OS4 API layer to MorphOS allowing some OS4 software to run on MorphOS. But it is not complete package at all.

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@Hans

Or was it that the MorphOS desktop (Ambient) is light years ahead of any Workbench? Anyone that has used and followed Ambient's development knows how it started as an inferior desktop that everyone replaced with the original Amiga Workbench or Directory Opus Magellan the first thing they did. In MorphOS 2.0 I seriously doubt that anyone has replaced Ambient with Workbench, and this is for a reason!

I doubt that they could replace it with Amiga OS 4.1's workbench because it probably wouldn't run properly.

I dont think he meant OS 4.0/4.1 Workbench but WB from OS 3.9. First versions of Ambient (and later also...) were so limited in features that some users found it better replace it by Workbench from OS 3.9.

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@Hans

Well, if we're comparing MOS 2.1 with AOS 4.1, then comparing Ambient with AOS 3.9's Workbench doesn't make sense. Workbench has been improved, although the basic way of accessing files hasn't changed.

Well... tmhgm was basicly pointing out how much Ambient has progressed in the last years. I have seen screenshots from new WB 4.1 listers but I doubt it still comes even close. Ambient is simply too far ahead right now.

But then I am an Ambient developer (albeit less these days) and also member of the MorphOS development team so it is not maybe fair to say so :-)