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Several questions mentioned ...
However, Kickstart is not mentioned, even it can be understood so. However, Hyperion could and should use this to boost backward compatibility.
It seems everybody wants to see advance of the OS,
but to be honest, I am quite satisfied with its development, especially knowing the obstacles and small team. Its way beyond OS 3.x now, even with most of what 68k Amiga community can do (like this nice effort) its official, and developing further. 68k AmigaOS is dead, or better said "emulated" (that is why above story)
http://amigavideo.tripod.com/TechDetails2.htmHowever, AmigaOS 4 retains two major weaknesses:
- No drivers for many printers, scanners and PCI cards
- No productivity native software, while most of 68k requires patching or is very limited for use 15-20 years ago
And this is hard and tought thing to get no matter what hardware.
On hardware side, I don`t believe we need to compete with Intel (which was pointless at 68k times too) for pure speed. OS is well built, and current PPC boards, even SOC run it well. That is most important. More then PC figures that in practice give not so good results (1 CPU even on 3Ghz can get to 100% use, paging file even with 2-3GB RAM and instability if turned off etc.)
About MUI4: If it gives any advance over MUI 3.8, it should be part of OS. Why having it only on MOS? OK MOs components might more relly on it, but that`s not excuse. What I would like to see is either emulation layers that would enable both software to be used under one OS (ending efectivly war) like e.g. OS4 emu
http://amigazeux.net/os4emu/OR
more boards that support both OS`s dual boot (triple with Linux) - just like Pegasos and 68k Amigas + PPC
Also, on so common "what is Amiga"
http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/zen.htm