Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28
OK. I wasn't talking about 68K code other than in passing but I see the problem now.
...and the solution.
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That's because contrary to AmigaOS or MorphOS' ABox, Mac OS X is not a singular address space OS that is based on message passing concept.
True but... MorphOS
is designed to have separate boxes.
You could run the existing A-Box in an emulated PPC environment. That in turn runs the 68K stuff.
You then have another A-Box2 that only runs ARM compiled stuff. Yes the 68K and PPC stuff will suffer but anything native will fly along.
It also means they can get rid of all those hacks and patches that they added to keep compatibility with the misbehaving Amiga apps. That'd be a much cleaner system albeit still based on a design that's over a quarter of a century old.
Ideally they'd dump the Amiga API altogether and build the Q-Box but I guess we can't expect miracles
