Tao release Free intent ADK with Digital Magazine

Mike Bouma writes: "A special release of the intent Application Development Kit for Windows and Linux is included on the cover CD of the current issue of digital magazine. Intent is the core technology used in the AmigaDE and is also the standard programming and the platform independent content environment chosen by the Open Contents Platform Association (OCPA) for digital consumer devices. Consumer Electronic Giants including Hitachi, Sony, Kyocera, PSION, Nokia, NEC, Motorola, Grundig, JVC, Fujitsu, Sharp, Epson, Intel, Pioneer, Metrowerks, Sega, Bandai and Capcom are supporting the platform. A full new release of the AmigaDE Software Development Kit will become available for general developers later this year. Software developed for intent works with the AmigaDE platform as well. Recently a partnership between Amiga and Nokia was revealed and finally here are some links to recent interviews with AmigaDE software developers."

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[Anonymous Coward]

The Amiga/TAO environment is pretty damn cool, easily the best software VM architecture out there, and is basically what .net and Java should be, but aren't.

It's NOT a forth-inspired stack based architecture like .net and Java, but rather works with an "unbounded register set", which is a wierd, but definitely cool way of doing things.

Sure, on any given processor architecture, for enough registers, it must eventually devolve into stack/main memory access, but the VM takes care of the best mapping for you. Thus, it can take full advantage of modern RISC architectures.

It's not currently fully open source (more source-available-proprietary), but they strongly support the GPL software community, and intend to continue doing so in future.

Open sourcers actually interested in best-of-breed systems should be cloning Tao, not .net and Java.