Takers - One Woman's Opinion of the Amiga Mini

[Tripitaka]

>I don't understand CPU's, GPU's and other computer gibberish

She has been using an Amiga for 27 years and still doesn't understand CPUs? No wonder they say women know nothing about computers :-(

Do you know who Ada Lovelace is? Just read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry about her and you can see how damn stupid you just made yourself look...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

..and just for the record one of the best 3D artists I ever had the pleasure of working with was a total noob when it came to hardware. He was not a woman, just a damn good artist with no interest in computing beyond the apps he used.

[Tripitaka]

+1 Akiko, if CUSA come to Norfolk you an me can chase 'em down with our tractors.

[Tripitaka]

Well, with their "Amiga" computers they already have created a community that's maybe 10-50 times the size of the war field you're calling "Amiga community".

Back it up big mouth! You say something like that I need to see proof. So do it, show me that CUSA have actually got a "community" that is at least 10 times the size of existing AmigaOS, AROS, and MOS user base. I'm getting real sick of people using made up figures to back up wild opinion that they put forward as fact. If your going to say something like that then let's see the numbers.

[Tripitaka]

Hi,

@Tripitaka,

Don't go getting your panties in a tightwad, does it really, really matter.

Yes it does. I have no problem with opinion or fact but opinion as fact is just distortion of truth and has no place in any discussion among adults. I'm British dammit and I just wont tolerate that sort of tomfoolery.

As to what I want from a new Amiga; To be honest I liked the approach that Henrycase proposed on this page:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=60529&page=7

Memrisistor FPGA based hardware would be a good start. In the mean time CUSA should have licensed the Amiga name to Hyperion and worked alongside the Natami team for a genuine OS3.9 Commodore Amiga. In many ways a memresistor FPGA based Amiga would have seemed quite a natural evolution from the SAMs, X1000 and Natami as they all have FPGA or XMOS, ie. programmable chips. If only they had asked me.

And whilst I'm thinking about it, a PPC card for Natami and a Super-AGA board for SAM and X1000 would add a nice touch of unity.

This would all require co-operation between CUSA, Hyperion and the Natami team of course so I can't see it happening.

This is all only my opinion of course, everyone is entitled to one.

Come to think of it OS3.9 has a few libraries and datatypes etc.. that have been updated by other people and could do with a few other tweaks. Perhaps a fresh coat of paint would be good for a Commodore Amiga Natami release, they could call it AmigaOS Trinity or something else funky.