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> pierrot@jersey.net writes:
> 
>>The last version of AmigaDOS produced by Commodore was version 3.1. I've
>>never used it, but I've seen pictures of it, and it looks very nice. It's also
>>supposed to be more advanced than any PC or Mac OS. I don't know if Escom
>>has a newer version in the works, but they probably do.
> 

		o no memory protection
		o no virtual memory (although you can have Gigamem for some
				     programs)
		o no retargetable graphics (yet) in the ordinary OS
		o loss of speaking support
		o no networking in the plain OS
		  AmiTCP v2 I think is being worked on as an independent project?
		o the graphics (and especially the sound and disk controller
		  chips) the OS uses are getting old.  3 years for AGA, 
		  10 years(?) for Paula.
Don't get me wrong, I like AmigaDOS--I have used every version from 1.1-3.0, 
but there are some glaring deficiencies to the OS that have to be solved.  
(I have/had an Amiga 1000, 500, 600, 2000, 1200)
I hear (I do not know enough to speak with confidence by my own knowledge)
that porting the OS from the 68xxx series to a RISC series (the contenders
appear to be PA-RISC or PowerPC) would be a major project.

By the way, apparently Microsoft was in charge of AmigaBasic.
            

					-Mike Traynor

(Disclaimer: How could I speak for Fermilab???)

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