From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Jul 14 01:26:29 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Subject: Re: [MiNT] Re[3]: usage of wind_calc() From: Odd Skancke To: MiNT List In-Reply-To: <42D5962E.1060803@yahoo.fr> References: <20050712202628.96446.qmail@web31015.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <42D430A6.3070001@yahoo.fr> <1121280981.4207.60.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> <42D57FC1.7020603@yahoo.fr> <1121289066.29088.144.camel@linuxbox> <42D5962E.1060803@yahoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:23:47 +0000 Message-Id: <1121297027.29088.206.camel@linuxbox> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ozk@atari.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id j6DNQTnh021300 tor, 14,.07.2005 kl. 00.31 +0200, skrev Zorro: > Hi, > > Odd Skancke a écrit : > > > Or maybe discuss how to best implement WCOWORK in both AES's? > > > It's better that you talk directly to Olivier. Yes.. but I would prefer open discussion on this list, if ppl dont think it gets too offtopic. > > > >>And the application developpers should provide this reason? > >> > >>Currently, the MiNT kernel has nothing better that the MagiC one( Maybe > >>the ext2/Minix partition support?.. nothing important for the final user). > >> > >> > > Perhaps not visible to the end user, but then again, Windows does not > >provide anything important over Linux either, if this is your point of > >view. But we both know that Linux is a better design. > > > > > Linux a good design? the various BSD yes, but linux... ( please, don't > reply to this sentence or this thread will never finish :-) perhaps bsd is better than linux, but linux is better than windows ;-) > > >>When the freemint kernel will offer a *good* memory protection, virtual > >>memory and ELF external libraries/binaries, the users will "switch" > >>automatically. > >> > >> > > > > Together with XaAES, MiNT actually offers very good memory protection, > >not perfect, but very good. > > > IMHO we will have a good memory protection when we will have the virtual > memory to provide separate address spaces. ( just my 0.1 cent). > > > > There are still problems with some (if not > >all) VDI's > > > And with some apps. Yes, some apps stray so far from Atari's programming guidelines that they will never work under MP/VM no matter how good the implementation. Yet another compatibility problem .. what do we do about it? Odd Skancke