AmigaOS4 Feature Set: Release 1

[Warface]

There's not too much anyone can decry about this document. It's well put together, full of information rather than buzzword-ology (hey, everyone needs an ology you know  ). Crikey, even JoannaK (on this list anyway) has not neen too negative about it

Don't be afraid, nothing's enough. :-) Ppl are content with this feature list for a few days, a few weeks, but soon they will demand more. Even the previous feature list was born because of demands and complaints about lack of updates.

[L8-X]

Nice to see an update at last!

Quite an informative read.

Now if I could only get my hands on OS4! ;-)

[SilvrDrgn]

The features list is an impressive read.  Now if we could just get our hands on the real thing..... that would be the best!   :-)

[Allen]

I love the memory allocation!

Even my W2K work collegues thought that was pretty cool!

Allen

[HyperionMP]

Just to clarify a few points:

1. Arexx is not dropped from OS 4.0, it is included "as is".

That's the reason it was not mentioned in the document.

(Note that the source-code is almost entirely in 68K ASM and we doubt it is legally even possible to port it to PPC. We are working on a replacement WITHOUT DROPPING AREXX)

2. Some people seem to have misinterpreted the part in the description of the memory handling related to AGA.

This means that it will be possible to "fake" the presence of chipmem on systems without chipmem so that more legacy applications will work.

It does not mean that AGA is somehow "emulated".

[HyperionMP]

Just to clarify a few points:

1. Arexx is not dropped from OS 4.0, it is included "as is".

That's the reason it was not mentioned in the document.

(Note that the source-code is almost entirely in 68K ASM and we doubt it is legally even possible to port it to PPC. We are working on a replacement WITHOUT DROPPING AREXX)

2. Some people seem to have misinterpreted the part in the description of the memory handling related to AGA.

This means that it will be possible to "fake" the presence of chipmem on systems without chipmem so that more legacy applications will work.

It does not mean that AGA is somehow "emulated".

[HyperionMP]

Just to clarify a few points:

1. Arexx is not dropped from OS 4.0, it is included "as is".

That's the reason it was not mentioned in the document.

(Note that the source-code is almost entirely in 68K ASM and we doubt it is legally even possible to port it to PPC. We are working on a replacement WITHOUT DROPPING AREXX)

2. Some people seem to have misinterpreted the part in the description of the memory handling related to AGA.

This means that it will be possible to "fake" the presence of chipmem on systems without chipmem so that more legacy applications will work.

It does not mean that AGA is somehow "emulated".

[HyperionMP]

Just to clarify a few points:

1. Arexx is not dropped from OS 4.0, it is included "as is".

That's the reason it was not mentioned in the document.

(Note that the source-code is almost entirely in 68K ASM and we doubt it is legally even possible to port it to PPC. We are working on a replacement WITHOUT DROPPING AREXX)

2. Some people seem to have misinterpreted the part in the description of the memory handling related to AGA.

This means that it will be possible to "fake" the presence of chipmem on systems without chipmem so that more legacy applications will work.

It does not mean that AGA is somehow "emulated".

[HyperionMP]

Just to clarify a few points:

1. Arexx is not dropped from OS 4.0, it is included "as is".

That's the reason it was not mentioned in the document.

(Note that the source-code is almost entirely in 68K ASM and we doubt it is legally even possible to port it to PPC. We are working on a replacement WITHOUT DROPPING AREXX)

2. Some people seem to have misinterpreted the part in the description of the memory handling related to AGA.

This means that it will be possible to "fake" the presence of chipmem on systems without chipmem so that more legacy applications will work.

It does not mean that AGA is somehow "emulated".

[HyperionMP]

Just to clarify a few points:

1. Arexx is not dropped from OS 4.0, it is included "as is".

That's the reason it was not mentioned in the document.

(Note that the source-code is almost entirely in 68K ASM and we doubt it is legally even possible to port it to PPC. We are working on a replacement WITHOUT DROPPING AREXX)

2. Some people seem to have misinterpreted the part in the description of the memory handling related to AGA.

This means that it will be possible to "fake" the presence of chipmem on systems without chipmem so that more legacy applications will work.

It does not mean that AGA is somehow "emulated".

[HyperionMP]

Just to clarify a few points:

1. Arexx is not dropped from OS 4.0, it is included "as is".

That's the reason it was not mentioned in the document.

(Note that the source-code is almost entirely in 68K ASM and we doubt it is legally even possible to port it to PPC. We are working on a replacement WITHOUT DROPPING AREXX)

2. Some people seem to have misinterpreted the part in the description of the memory handling related to AGA.

This means that it will be possible to "fake" the presence of chipmem on systems without chipmem so that more legacy applications will work.

It does not mean that AGA is somehow "emulated".

[HyperionMP]

Just to clarify a few points:

1. Arexx is not dropped from OS 4.0, it is included "as is".

That's the reason it was not mentioned in the document.

(Note that the source-code is almost entirely in 68K ASM and we doubt it is legally even possible to port it to PPC. We are working on a replacement WITHOUT DROPPING AREXX)

2. Some people seem to have misinterpreted the part in the description of the memory handling related to AGA.

This means that it will be possible to "fake" the presence of chipmem on systems without chipmem so that more legacy applications will work.

It does not mean that AGA is somehow "emulated".

[Hondo]

YIIIIHAAAA!!!   :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:

Looks damn good to me.  Would like to hear the oppinion from some of you technical experts out there.

Is this REALLY good news???

Why is it good news???

Is The Exec NG fast compared to Windows and Linux

Long live Jay Miner.....cheers old chap  :pint:

[Kronos]

Yiiiiiihaaaa Ben no need tp repeat it ...

Why is everybody so fuzzy about a featurelist ?
Quite pointless as long as I haven't seen a working beta.  :flame:

>virtual chipmem

So it's just the same as the 8mb "chipmem" that I had on Amithlon
for the last year ? O.k. nice, but nothing big. And yes I would
could imagine that this could be usefull for that other OS too.

[HyperionMP]

Just for the record:

OS 4.0 won't have AGA emulation as such.

[Elektro]

Why do you want to see os4 so desperately kronos? You have your morsos go crash it.