Amiga OS 4 should be ported over to the xx86.

[bhoggett]

jorkany wrote:
@woz11,

What do you all think?

I think OS4 is already beyond the point of no return.

No more or less so than MorphOS. It's not the OS or the code or the amount of work required that's the problem - it's the lack of will, and in this respect AOS4 and MOS are brothers in arms. Both are therefore ultimately doomed - it's just a matter of time.

[falemagn]

@ DonnyEMU

Each machine has gig of memory, and a USB flash drive that's at least a gig with system boost enabled on it (it moves the swap file out to the very fast USB drive).

What's the use of that? Wouldn't have it been better and cheaper to just add one more GiB of RAM on the mobo instead? Also, doesn't flash ram have an upper limit on how many times it can be written to?

[jorkany]

@DonnyEMU,

Either way I agree with Hyperion not doing OS4 for the PC, it's not needed there is much better stuff out there.

I agree there is much better stuff out there, but this is not the reasoning the Hyperion non-representative employees have given for not porting OS4 to x86.

Maybe an OS 5 though would be cool.

What firm information about OS5 do you have that leads you to believe this?

These guys are really innovative

Innovative how? Examples please.