Why Am I excited about Icaros?

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Piru wrote:
I guess he means Anubis.

Regardless I don't exactly share his enthusiasm.

And this is a very fine thread to explain, in a civilised manner, why. :-)

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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.

He was referring to the absence of memory protection.
Nowadays, this'd impose a gigantic security leak for the whole system.

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bloodline wrote:

pixie wrote:
It might be a bad joke but it never let me hanging as much as Windows has

That is the Win32 Userspace...

I agree.Especially considering the GUI part of programs. Even nowadays with .NET it's utter crap (though COM is a complete disaster), especially if multithreading is used.

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Piru wrote:
@stefcep2

I'm sorry but it's you who got it wrong, not Einstein.

AmigaOS multitasking is a bad joke, compared to linux, mac os x or even windows.

On the other side, I could, for instance, format multiple floppies at the same time. I mean, the computer was as well designed to be able to multitask (thats also the prime reason why SCSI was the preferred hard disk controller).

I mean, hardware should be built to be dedicated for software, as well as software should be built to serve it's purposes. Amiga isn't only about what it can or can't, but about the way it is built. Amiga, or, girlfriend, got its name with a reason. The reason of developers and engineers have passion for what they're making.