MorphOS Developer
Posts: 1516 from 2003/2/24
From: Finland
Quote:
kamelito wrote:
No offence here but Morphos, Aros and OS4 wouldn't have been possible without the hard work of Amiga/CBM. It is easier to take as a base an existing OS or use existing codebase (read OS4), than to create a brand new operating system from scratch.
As far as AmigaOS is concerned it is probably easier to write from scratch than base on existing code base.
On the other hand, MorphOS was not entirely written from scratch. It uses AROS code base (as discussed in this thread and see http://www.morphos-team.net/downloads), it uses code base from other sources, including CGX, MUI and ixemul, borrows some other code from general open source community (jpg, png, freetype and so on) and many tools are coming from existing code base (MUIProCalc, Mysticview, DiskSpeed, Snoopium, PFSDoctor, Defrag). MorphOS is mix of old and new Amiga code.
1 + 1 = 3 with very large values of 1
