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posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 17.11.2022, 11:10

> There is not enough in common between the different
> small OSes, right, e.g. MSDOS and AmigaOS? So it's
> not the API that needs standardization first, the
> root problem is that people keep writing new OSes
> (like AmigaOS) in a way that prohibits having a
> standard API?
>
> Was it a mistake for AmigaOS to do that instead of
> copying MSDOS?

there was little worth copying from MSDOS.

as far as I remember, AmigaOS was HUGE, compared to MSDOS.

it did MultiMedia, preemptive multitasking, Graphics, and probably more.
even a mouse was part of AmigaOS.

now explain to us how your new "standard" is dealing with multitasking, multimedia, graphics, or even a mouse.

 

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