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Re: the AmigaOS 4.0 Features have been revealed!
« Reply #44 from previous page: August 09, 2002, 02:39:21 PM »
Alternatively, using languages that are safe..

Which brings up a question: will SHEEP make it to
AmigaOS ?
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Re: the AmigaOS 4.0 Features have been revealed!
« Reply #45 on: August 09, 2002, 03:33:14 PM »
Browsers should all now be free. Now that there is the open-source AWeb, i doubt any other person could even try to make money out of a browser.

As i see it, the only reason IBrowse will stay alive is if someone like Hyperion or Amiga Inc buys this guy out. Because at the pace open source software seems to move these days, then the amount of people ready to volinteer, a commercial browser just cant compete unless they have hurds of developers working on new groud breaking improvements/inhancements. IBrowse doesnt have that and prolly never will.

I will be surprised if sales of IBrowse will go anywhere but down from here on. Sad, i know, but the fact is, there is a free browser now for AmigaOS, one that will continualy be updated, and is not effected by commercial obligations (making money).

Also, the chances of Amiga Inc and hyperion buying out this guy are slim also unless they can see the advantage of having parts of the webbrowser integrated within the system. That is, because they also see the fact that they already have a browser for AmigaOS (AWeb) and with a licence like the ALP (Or what ever it was called), its going to be hard to compete .

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Re: the AmigaOS 4.0 Features have been revealed!
« Reply #46 on: August 09, 2002, 06:22:45 PM »
I guess I have to clean up this confusion, even though I wanted to stay away...:

Believe me (as the main programmer behind ExecSG): ExecSG has *never* been 68k. It was being written on the PPC from day 1.

I think it wouldn't make any sense to start such a PPC native OS as a 68k assembly project.

Unfortunately, the wording in the feature list was a bit misleading: It refers to the *OLD* exec, not to ExecSG.

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Re: the AmigaOS 4.0 Features have been revealed!
« Reply #47 on: August 09, 2002, 08:36:41 PM »
Thnx for clearing that up Thomas.

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Re: the AmigaOS 4.0 Features have been revealed!
« Reply #48 on: August 09, 2002, 09:30:56 PM »
Jep, nice to hear from you Thomas :-D
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Re: the AmigaOS 4.0 Features have been revealed!
« Reply #49 on: August 09, 2002, 11:11:36 PM »
The confusing lines have now been fixed in the original Amiga Inc post:

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Exec Second Generation (Exec SG)

Exec is the AmigaOS kernel and was written in 68K assembly for AmigaOS 3.1. It has been rewritten in C, as ExecSG, for AmigaOS 4.

The following features are planned for ExecSG:


Thank you to all concerned, this is now clear and un-ambiguos.

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Re: the AmigaOS 4.0 Features have been revealed!
« Reply #50 on: August 10, 2002, 01:28:37 PM »
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It has been rewritten in C, as ExecSG, for AmigaOS 4.

The following features are planned for ExecSG:


...this is now clear and un-ambiguos.


Heh. Maybe they should try again. ;)
Yeah, yeah, you and me know what they mean, but...

"In AmigaOS 4, the Exec kernel will have been updated to ExecSG, a PPC-native version rewritten in C. The following features are being implemented:"

Now, that wasn't so hard. :)

Oh well, it's just marketing. Get it done and stop with the preliminary pre-pre-pre-meta-pseudo-semi-announcement-announcements.

Apparently, "we can have AmigaOS 4 when they pry our cold, dead hands open and put it there". ;)
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