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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Does this mean we'll have to be nice to each other?
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Date: 10 Jan 88 06:51:54 GMT
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In article <2063@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee) writes:
>The writer goes on to hypothesize that the next obvious step is an object-
>compatible third-party operating system for both machines.

It's being worked on.  By me, and by my roommate (who has an Amiga).  We
don't expect to have anything worth showing for several months, but I'll
post status reports now that the cat's out of the bag, so to speak.

>I shall have to
>stare at my navel for a bit, and wonder whether it could be sensibly done in
>a manner which would let you get at the stronger points of whichever machine
>you are on, rather than at a lowest common denominator level -- which I don't
>think would be doing anyone any favours.

We've worked out some fairly nice (at least, WE think they're nice) solutions
to that problem.  Naturally, you're going to want to write a program in the
machine's native OS (or not use an OS at all) if you need to squeeze every
last bit of power from either machine; there are some things which can't be
generalized.  But our OS (which is still unnamed at this point) will, for
instance, allow you to write an arcade-style game with good sound and fast
graphics that will work on either system.

>Right off, without thinking much
>about it, I wonder whether we could actually learn to talk together reasonably
>enough for it to take off. :-)

I don't know how to do that in assembly language.  It must be a hardware
problem.  :-)

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