Re: [MiNT] FW: WCOWORK vs WINDOM for components

["olivier.landemarre@utbm.fr" <Olivier.Landemarre@utbm.fr>]

Selon Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.nu>:

> > It's your point of view of Mint user, it's not the point of view of Magic
> > user. Magic was more compatible with TOS than Mint + Multitos, don't
> forget
> > this.
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> No it wasn't. I don't even see how it could be, seeing that MiNT just
> extended
> TOS and MagiC replaced it. Besides, MagiC made up its own AES specs and API
> extensions for features that Atari defined in AES 4.x. "MagiC was more
> compatible to TOS than Multitos" is a contradiction in terms.
I not agree, Mint is not only an extension of TOS, and couldn't in fact, because
TOS systems call was not able to support a preemptive system kernel as Mint.
Mint replace completly (or near) gemdos (ex memory allocation, file system even
on old GEM partition) because it's impossible to do without this, there is no
contradiction in it. It's well know that Magic was able to run more old software
(perhaps badly write too) than Mint and Multitos. A multitos slow and never
finish, even never put on computer as the official system by Atari on the
falcon, if it was Atari will put it in ROM.

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Olivier

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