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Randell Jesup <jesup@cbmvax.uucp> in Message-ID: <6276@cbmvax.UUCP> writes:

>     Lastly, it's easy to say "AmigaDos sucks, we should throw it away and
> start over", but in reality that's not a good option.  We would throw away
> all the work people have done to work under AmigaDos, all old disks would
> no longer be useable, old programs wouldn't work, we'd trade our current
> annoyances for a brand spanking new set of _bugs_ and annoyances, and destroy
> what confidence we have generated in the Amiga.  Plus it would take a MAJOR
> effort to do that, compared to fixing what problems exist with it.

There is though an option which should have been considered a long time ago.
There is a multi-user, multi-tasking real-time operating system supporting
multi-processors in a mulitude of coupling models (closely, thin-wire, loosely)
called Harmony. This operating system was develloped at the NRC (National
Research Council) and released about a year or two before the Amiga came out.
The source code is readely available, so I am rather suprised that the Amiga
people way back then did not port it. Particularly knowing Carl Sassenrath s
love of object oriented operating systems.

The benefits of adopting this operating system are hardly believable. Can you
imagine an Amiga having 5 68020 Zorro boards clustered together to render that
ultimate ray-traced picture? Can you imagine an industry-wide adopted
operating system taking automatic advantage of the MMU. Harmony is one of the
only two real-time operating systems that have achieved industry-wide
acceptance. Harmony is used to control combat equipment on the latest frigates
and submarine detection on US s beloved nuclear submarines. And considering
the Soviets flair for advanced Western technology, do not be surprised if
Harmony was in control of the Mig-29.   :-)

Since the free world counts on Harmony to protect democracy, should we not
trust Harmony to run Word Perfect without crashing when memory is too low?

I talked with my professor about the possibility of porting Harmony to the
Amiga as a fourth year University project, but since Harmony has its own
low-level kernel, and thus makes porting Harmony over the Amiga Exec rather
unorthodox, I would have ended spending all my time write device driver. I
opted for another equally challenging project involving the Amiga.

Now couldn t you fellows, who already have the device drivers  source code,
port this marvellous thing. It would take you only two months.

Valentin

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