> I'm going to quote myself here because of pure laziness:
> http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=60755
> [...]
> A clean slate would be required to incorporate features like these and make an
> architectural jump in a "fairly easy" way. This will probably also mean handling
> 68k apps in a similar way as AROS does [...]. I think this approach would be totally
> acceptable for a 4.x branch of MorphOS, incorporating all those new interesting core
> OS features (more addressable memory, true SMP, true MP, 64-bit, etc, that simply
> *can't exist* in a legacy Amiga context without breaking the Amiga part of it (no
> matter what some people claim)), and do an architectural jump at the same time.

Interesting article on this by MorphOS user and MorphZone member Eric W. Schwartz published online in early August:

http://web.archive.org/web/20160820171814/amigamccc.org/journal/1308eric.htm

The article is confusing 'ABI' with 'API' on one occurence but apart from that little glitch I think it's a rather accurate summary of the status quo.


Edit: changed URL to Wayback Machine

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 08.05.2023 - 13:59 ]