The really sweet thing about the platform independence of the new Amiga system is that it's basically automatically multiplatform. You write to Tao's Virtual Processor and the VP code does the translations necessary to run on whatever hardware's under the hood. You write one piece of code and it really does run anywhere (that Tao supports, that is). It sounds a lot like the promise that Sun gave for Java but never actualized. And yes, the OS can be hosted OR can run alone. The SDK is hosted on Linux, though.
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The really sweet thing about the platform independence of the new Amiga system is that it's basically automatically multiplatform. You write to Tao's Virtual Processor and the VP code does the translations necessary to run on whatever hardware's under the hood. You write one piece of code and it really does run anywhere (that Tao supports, that is). It sounds a lot like the promise that Sun gave for Java but never actualized. And yes, the OS can be hosted OR can run alone. The SDK is hosted on Linux, though.