Subject: : AmigaOS4 Topic: : Interesting post..... (Did you know this?) Interesting post..... (Did you know this?) Author: : Mikey_C Date: : 2011/10/29 0:26:08 URL:

"I'm not going to get into the merits of this debate but I do need to correct you on a very significant point.

Hyperion has two of the original Technologies GmbH developers working on AmigaOS 4.x.

To my knowledge, both contributed to the classic 68K AmigaOS (i.e. a long time before AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9 were released).

One is Olaf Barthel who is the one that cleaned up all the original Commodore 3.1 source-code, made it all compile with a single compiler, put all the code in a CVS etc. and essentially made AmigaOS 4.x possible without wasting a massive amount of time.

Another is Heinz Wrobel (who many may know as the author of Envoy).

Those who know where to look for it will find code of both of these guys in AmigaOS 2.x - 3.1.

To the best of my knowledge, there are no former Commodore/Amiga Technologies developers working on other Amiga like operating systems. Feel free to correct me.

On top of that, Hyperion is using the original Commodore source-code which can be traced back to the very beginning. Nobody else can (openly) claim the same, I'm sorry.

Contrary to popular belief, a lot of that code is still incorporated into the OS e.g. Workbench and AREXX.

Now please lets not have an My OS is better than the Other OS bashing thread, I am posting this because its something I did not know. - Am I alone?

Source: http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/v ... wmode=flat&order=0#635104

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