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posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 17.11.2022, 23:55

> > 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.
MSDOS was capable of running business applications
for many years.

It was valuable enough that people went to the
effort of running an 8086 emulator on the Amiga
so that they could run MSDOS software.

I'm simply wanting to replace that emulator with
native 68000. Without changing one line of code.

Was that possible? At least if C programmers had
"done the right thing" and maybe if MSDOS had
"done the right thing" too.

> 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.
I don't need my new standard to cover any of that.
I don't care what the Amiga added.

I just want to cover MSDOS.

BFN. Paul.

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