Re: [MiNT] Shutdown() discussion

[Petr Stehlik <joy@sophics.cz>]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 17:23, =?us-ascii?Q?Joakim H=F6gberg?= wrote:
> The principle is probably more important than the issue here. Personally, I think an emulator
> should be responsible for behaving like the hardware it wants to resemble, rather than relying
> on the OS to be changed to suite its needs.

Sounds reasonable at first. But you might not realize that by limiting
the software to emulating the AGES OLD hardware does not bring any
advantage. What an ST emulator is good for today? Just for playing games
or demos. We wouldn't bother MiNT developers with a project that's good
for playing games only. In fact, we wouldn't bother ourselves at first
as we are/were developers and user of power applications, not game
players.

That's why we don't develop an emulator of an existing machine - that
would be a vaste of time and resources. ARAnyM is a new system and if
the applications or their users want to make use of its features the OS
should support it.

BTW, I don't require anything from MiNT - it was just my proposal to
support the shutdown call with a few lines of NatFeat enabled code. If
the general opinion is "NO" I am OK with that (but feel like wasted a
lot of time and effort as ARAnyM was destined mainly for developers).

Petr