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I get the feeling the AmigaOS people still think they can sell it or they have a bunch of code that they know will be problematic to open source.
by protomyth 8y ago
I get the feeling the AmigaOS people still think they can sell it or they have a bunch of code that they know will be problematic to open source.
- simcop2387 8y agoEither that, or they don't have some of the code anymore. It's changed hands a few times so it's possible that some of it is only available as binary files packed into the ROMs and other places.
- kryptiskt 8y agoHyperion released a new version of AmigaOS just a couple of weeks ago http://hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php/where-to-buy/direct-downloads/188-amigaos-314 http://hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php/where-to-buy/dir...
- icedchai 8y agoAmigaOS 3.x source was leaked on github a few years back. Quite a few people have copies, though as you note is likely not 100% complete.
- Nomentatus 8y agoOne of the devs (as opposed to owners) is busy with DragonflyBSD. "Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began working on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on 16 July 2003." - Wikipedia, DragonflyBSD
- mariuolo 8y agoI thought he had developed the DICE C compiler, not parts of the OS.
- Nomentatus 8y ago"Dillon started DragonFly in the belief that the techniques adopted for threading and symmetric multiprocessing in FreeBSD 5[4] would lead to poor performance and maintenance problems." So whether he contributed to the OS or just learned something at Amiga from those who did, Amiga's key concerns live on. Not to mention that the compiler isn't exactly remote from multiprocessor concerns; its value was that it adapted closely to what the Amiga hardware made possible, obviously.