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Quote from: HammerD;568167
Well there was as chance with both MorphOS and OS 4.0 to  make a clean break and sandbox 3.X apps, and make new API's and basically start over fresh.

Both approaches didn't do that, however, probably to maintain backwards compatibility within the older applications.   Plus, defining all new API's is basically re-writing everything from scratch.  Maybe that was too much work given the available budgets and resources.

If it was me, and I had unlimited resources and time, I would sandbox legacy apps and start with a clean slate, adding features like SMP, etc.


Yup.  I seriously wish AROS had done this.
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Windows may have memory protection since XP (as well as all versions of NT of course but that's not a desktop OS) BUT Windows still gets ass raped at the mere sniff of a TCP/IP connection so why is it so important?


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