Actualy, i think almost everyone has known that this is the case. Its bloody obvious.
If you didnt know already, Fleecy told me several years ago, and i suppose this still applies... The DE will be integrated in such a way, that the DE will not run as a task/process.
Fleecy didnt go further, but i can only thing of one other way of doing things. The only thing i can think of is, by implimenting the DE as a set of API's. But what is certain is that the DE will be implimented to be ran as a task from 4.2, but by OS5, it'll be completly integrated and wont run as a proecss.
Here's the email again. I keep all my favourite emails
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Dear Mr McEwen,
sorry to bother you again, as this is my second email on the one topic. In my last email i did make sure you knew that it was not of high importance and that it could wait. But im writing to inform you that there seems to be more confusion than what i first thought.
The matter that i and others are concerned (or puzzled) about is the technical update and a specific phrase. I can hear you getting mad.
. I know that you must have put a lot of work into that article and tried to make it as clear as possible. You did a greate job. However theres just one small thing i and others believe need clarrification in your technical update.
Quote:
Most importantly, AmigaOS4 will see the first introduction of the AmigaDE for existing Amigans, with it running co-operatively on top of the Operating System, and then slowly being integrated until, with the release of AmigaOS5, both will effectively merge to become one.
End Quote.
Many people seem to believe that by AmigaOS 5.0, AmigaOS will have achieved full hardware independance. That is AmigaOS will not require the PPC to operate, and will instead use a range of processors from the zico standard, including arm, x86 and others.
I myself do not beleive this is what you intended to portray. I believe that when you said "both will effectively merge to become one" that you ment that AmigaOS will simply be able to run all AmigaDE applications however the AmigaOS will be dependant on he PPC. As which makes sence to why you would port all existing AmigaOS code from 68k -> PPC code.
So as i am sure this is what you are trying to say, Many other are not so sure, or are sure about something that is not true. I think clarrification is needed on this one point. If (ironicly) you are having trouble understanding me,
email me right back and ill see if i can put this another way.
Fleecy Wrote:
Dear Rodney 8-)
What this means is that for AmigaOS4 (currently OS4.2), the DE will run
as a separate application on top of the AmigaOS, which itself is
a PPC only OS. When OS5 comes around, it will not run as an
application but be a seamless and invisible part of OS5. However, it will
be a subset of OS5 - it will not decide which processors OS5
runs on.
That information will be released much later on, most likely when we
have OS5 running on them.
Thanks for asking though ;-)
