New Executive Update

[DaveP]

I wouldnt post on Slashdot, posting anything Amiga related  has this tendancy to expose the lamers, clueless and flamers. In fact dont post anything anywhere until you can actually order an A1 with OS4 in my view.


Dave.

[DaveP]

Well perhaps you get to fly once around the world instead.

[DaveP]

Im sorry I dont get you?

[DaveP]

I dont recall one press conference or exec overview saying that
it was dead in 2000. I recall Fleecy and Bill saying that they
wanted to take the Amiga brand forward to be a new widget
based universe running on top of intent and that "classic" Amiga
products would not be directly supported by them.

This remains true up to a point although they have increased
their support of "classic" to the point of not calling it "classic" any
more with a strong platform direction.

[DaveP]

Id agree with this whilst there are no killer apps on that platform.

1. Developers are not ready to pay for platform agnostic write once run anywhere mechanisms.

2. Consumers dont give a toss what the OS is or the platform so long they can run their programs.

3. Write once compile everywhere has become pretty much a solved entity.

Whilst I dont think the desktop war is over ( there is still a chance as the resurgance of the Mac has proven ) I do think that DE has had its chance and has unfortunately failed. There is a small chance that a big success will turn this around but the developement community seems to be leaving or gone and the user community has dried up.

Very very sad for what is an excellent technology.

Now I want to see Amigas content brokering architecture ported onto AOS4.x and up ;-)