Re: [gtk-list] Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Proposed widget

[KC5TJA <kc5tja topaz axisinternet com>]

> general purpose OS.  Any OS without memory protection is not a general
> purpose OS.  It may run games fine.  It may run a few apps fine.  But
> it is not a general purpose OS, it is special purpose.

I've yet to see a single reason why an OS MUST have memory protection to
be general purpose.  They keep saying you must have it, but I've yet to
see proof.

> If you want a special dinky little system, why use Gtk?  Why should
> the vast majority of general purpose users be held back and have to
> re-invent the wheel, over and over again, because you want it to run
> on a special purpose dinkly little system?

Fine.  If you want a 20MB binary, so be it.

> BTW, as I understand the Amiga announcement, the x86 4.0 release is a
> stopgap developers release only, to get development going until the
> new Amiga hardware arrives, which will then use OS 5.0.  I doubt very

Your point?

> seriously that Gateway is thinking of challenging Mickeysoft with a
> brand new OS.  About the only splash it will make is in the Amiga world.

Didn't say they were.  I just said that it'd make a splash.  It'd be a
commercial alternative to Windows and OS/2.  You know, where people can
make money supporting it.  Very few people are making money from Linux
right now.  A lot more people are making money off of the current AmigaOS
environment.  And when AmigaOS hits the x86 market, a lot more people will
start making money.

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