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Originally Posted by Olaf Barthel
There's some overlap and you might find that the shell commands in AmigaOS 3.2 are not functionally identical to the AmigaOS 4.x commands in terms of features. They still have some catching up to do. Put another way, there's more AmigaOS for the 68k platform to "adopt" from AmigaOS 4.x than the other way round.
What first comes to my mind is that AmigaOS 3.2 still has to carry HDToolbox and its ugly sidekick ProdPrep, whereas the partitioning software in AmigaOS 3.9 is much more mature and functional. As before, we did our best under difficult circumstances, but the whole HDToolbox situation is both supremely dissatisfying and hard to redress  |
Thanks for the quick answer. So it sounds like there's a few superficial things in both cases, but nothing that for example would stop an application developer targeting both without needing OS4 specific features, or for a user of 3.2 to use the 3.9 disk tools if they really needed to.
Also part of my question is, is it reasonable to consider OS4 a superset of OS3.2 except where OS4 has deliberately deprecated OS3 bits it doesn't need. As opposed to OS3.2 having anything that's actually newer and more functional than the equivalent OS4 piece because it's more recently developed, even if it's version number is 'older'