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Originally Posted by Akira
I only installed the new Workbench library so far. You can't find those other libraries unless you get 3.9, can you? but you can get workbench.library elsewhere (like in BetterWB).
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If BetterWB is using a patched version of the AmigaOS 3.9 workbench.library to work with earlier versions of AmigaOS then the legality may be in question unless the user owns a copy of AmigaOS 3.9. You might be able to find other AmigaOS 3.9 libraries which have been patched to work with earlier versions of AmigaOS if you look hard enough.
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Originally Posted by Akira
Doesn't 3.9 do a lot more than just that anyway?
Why does it need a 020+ and 6MB of Fast RAM? There's all those memory-hungry icons and shit.
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AmigaOS 3.9 needs a 68020+ for the simple reason that the developers did not compile everything for a 68000 target or provide both 68000 and 68020 executables. Some of the AmigaOS 3.9 executables are still 68000 compatible. Several AmigaOS 3.9 modules have grown as a result of new functionality and in some cases poor code optimization. In other cases, the performance has been improved considerably like the (later ThoR released) layers.library, dynamic memory performance with fragmented memory and CopyMem()/CopyMemQuick() in exec.library (at the same time these 3 important performance increases could be better optimized yet). The eye candy (most can be disabled) and some larger executables require more memory, faster disk access and more colors which are slow on older ECS/AGA Amigas and more than offset performance gains from AmigaOS 3.9. An Amiga with 68040+ and RTG should be faster with AmigaOS 3.9 than AmigaOS 3.1 though.