Sujet : Re: Bluefish HTML Editor
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 22. Sep 2024, 09:08:07
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On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:35:01 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
On 9/21/24 18:15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:15:59 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
The AmigaOS ran on the hardware and lots of gamers and demo-coders
would exploit the hardware ignoring the OS. The OS had everything but
memory management.
It didn’t have a very good graphics abstraction layer. In short, it
wasn’t a very good OS, which is why the apps ignored it.
The applications I used used the OS or I did not buy them.
You can’t have had much of a choice of apps, then.
... mostly the higher end were used as places to
run the Video Toaster hardward on.
The Video Toaster is a prime example of a product that was so heavily tied
to hardware features of the Amiga, it was an NTSC-only product: there
could be no PAL version because there was no room in the Amiga memory
layout for that to work.