It's interesting to see what has happened with the Atari Jaguar's development since Atari went bellyup (everything was given over to the community to do with as they wanted). Ok it's a console and it's user base was tiny compared to AmigaOS but it's still gives you an idea of what might have happen to AmigaOS if AmigaInk had been 'nice' and done the same thing after 3.9 was released. For one thing I guess we wouldn't have AROS/MorphOS today, or at least AROS/MorphOS would be derived from OS 3.x source code.
If AmigaInc had managed the project in a sensible way (stop laughing), they could have used the open source branch of OS3.x to feed back into OS4.x development.
Exactly! There is a (rather tiny) group of people that are still doing homebrew and releasing things for the Atari Jaguar. I finally bit the bullet and bought Skyhammer and Robinson's Requiem for mine, but I'm on the fence of "Do I open them and play them, or do I leave them in the package for collector's reasons?" I'm sure I'll eventually open them when I have time. I don't really intend on selling my Atari stuff.
The beauty would have been if they released the source, that there wouldn't have been this huge in-fighting of "do we go x86 or do we support PPC, which Commodore may or may not have gone to after 68k was dying out.." 'cause simply, it could have gone both ways, or all ways, and we'd have it for ARM, PPC, PPC64, x86, x86_64, 6502... whoa, got ahead of myself there...
Well, why not, they put Lunix on C64
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