Sure.
I put Peecees together to sell them, and I really miss the niceness of Amiga. I obviously can't slap an Amiga together like a PC. I just wish that there were some way to construct a hybrid or something that could cannibalize the PC board and slave it to a piece of Amiga hardware so that can run off Workbench.
After all, you can put an Amiga ROM inside a PC and rig up software emulation; why can't you put Amiga ROMs and some other architecture in the PC, adopt an accessory sound and GFX board, and integrate the rest of the hardware through use of drivers, just like the PC does to run its hardware?
Surely all a Pentium III does were little more than process pieces of information at the binary level. With the new Amiga object-oriented environment, shouldn't the Pentium III just become another object?
It would be nice at the least to have a piece of hardware so the ROMs can be installed and the WB run. There really seems to be a need for alternative operating systems on the PC. Do you know how often the Windows crashes, particularly SE?
I tried to install Linux, but I was amazed at the incompatibility. Having Amiga venture into the PC, could allow Amiga games to run from PC with the proper hardware and also from AmigaOne or from whatever system. There could be a card for the Amiga 4000, the Amiga 2000, the Amiga 500. . .and couldn't it all be condensed into an integrated circuit or something??
But the point I'm trying to make, would be that if we really see Amiga everywhere, that might be far preferable to PC. I mean, would you really want to buy Windows for your Amiga?? I think there definitely appears to be a shortage of operating systems for PC clones, but have you seen the motherboards? Maybe if Amiga could put an OS into the PC, that Amiga boards could eventually be licensed like the PC boards. . .that should happen in 30 years anyway, shouldn't it, after the copyright wears off?
Part of the Amiga vision I was reading about, suggested that any device should be just another potential device to run Amiga programs on. So I shouldn't be surprised to see Amiga treat a PC motherboard like any other object, like a handheld PDA, like any piece of hardware that could run Amiga software.
I think we can agree that Workbench would benefit from an automatic window closer. But to address the idea of the CLI, I still think there should be one in each window. If you have OS3.9, you can see how you can click on the window itself and then it Amiga-E, and there you automatically end up in the directory of the window. That was a nice feature. But by putting a CLI inside the window like at the top, after the directory name or folder name listing, wouldn't that be even easier? It could be a toggle-option, just in case. . .
Aniway
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