Subject: Re: More Questions
To: None <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 05/28/1998 01:22:34
On 27.05.98, 20:39:00, Alexx Riedel wrote:
> 
> 4. And now for something completely different: I was quite interested in
> that historical discussion concerning the origins of the AmigaOS taking
> place in this list. As there seemed to be quite a few competent mailers: If
> it was not that problem to compile all the AmigaOS under NetBSD (as
> allegedly done by Olaf Barthel), what was/is the problem porting the AmigaOS

I think there was a slight misunderstanding. Great parts of AmigaOS were
originally compiled with the Greenhill compiler on Sun3 workstations,
and not on Amiga. So the major part was to make that compiler work on
NetBSD/amiga, which was not that big a deal, because NetBSD/amiga is
binary compatible with Sun3 binaries (m68k).
AmigaOS programs were _not_ made to run on NetBSD, nothing of it was
ported to NetBSD, it was just built.

This has nothing at all to do with porting the core of the AmigaOS operating
system to another hardware platform.

> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> --
> Alexx Riedel

-- 
Bernd Sieker