Posts: 1377 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
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And these are exactly the reasons why I am not running MorphOS right now although I would like to.
No memory protection - Ok, how about later?
Impossible - Sorry this is the wrong answer, nothing in this world is impossible. I am not an OS programmer but I now it can be done even if you have to rewrite the hole thing, even if you have to break every API and make it AmigaOS 3.x incompatible.
Rewriting everything and starting from scratch takes a
lot of time and effort. This type of process would not be finished anytime soon.
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reboot only takes a few seconds - reboot is not an option, this is fall 2006.
Being able to run multiple ABox tasks could be interesting as it would give developers a safe sandbox to run their failure-prone test applications in. That would probably be the next best thing to memory protection.
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And the other most serious "thing" is that there is no official entity behind MorphOS
There is the MorphOS Development Team. Unlike Amiga Inc., it has no board of directors, but I fail to see how that would guarantuee steady development and a glory future.
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AND / OR any sort of a roadmap. From what we know there might never be another version.
The next version of MorphOS is continiously being worked on. If there were no further updates planned, it would have been announced.
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It could be or it couldn't, one can only hope or guess about it. This is very unprofessional I think
The same can happen with big corporations who announce products but never deliver. Uncertainty is a a part of life and has no relation to unprofessional manners whatsoever.