Re: [MiNT] Shutdown() discussion

["Joakim Högberg" <gokmase@home.se>]

>Hmmm, OS should support HW. As we see ARAnyM as a virtual machine that
>basicaly defines that the CPU instruction set is mc68040 compatible and
>nothing more we would like to get the OS support ARAnyM just like any
>other HW available.

IMO this is the crossroad right there - many might feel it is all backwards to see MiNT,
our native OS, be adjusted to let an emulator/virtual machine use native features from the
(real) underlying OS that it is running on top of. Like Ozk pointed out, the original issue
might perhaps be a detail, but all things start in small.

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.

Regards,

Joakim

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