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Re: Would you pay $100 for an updated Classic AmigaOS?
« on: June 30, 2009, 12:32:26 AM »
Isn't this what AmiKit, AmigaSYS, and others aim to do? No one in the cumminity has access to OS3 source code in a way that allows them to distribute updates, so we'd need Amiga, Inc.'s license to move forward. I don't think anyone considers that a serious possibility.
 

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Re: Would you pay $100 for an updated Classic AmigaOS?
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2009, 01:30:10 AM »
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No. It would be interesting specially if a 1Ghz 68K came out, but unfortunately it's not gonna happen....


Elbox's mythical Dragon might reinvigorate things as well, but to move beyond nostalgia, it would have to do something--anything--that a less expensive, state of the art Windows, Linux, Mac OS, or game system doesn't already do better.

6LoWPAN? (An up to date port of Contiki could do that.)

A general purpose natural speech recognition user interface in multiple languages?

Natural and seamless, general purpose parallel processing?

An operating environment that blurs the lines between local and distributed (cloud, clustered, whatever) computing? An operating environment on top of a virtual machine (pay attention: Sun/Oracle and Microsoft know damned well what they're doing with Java and .NET, and hypervisors/virtual machine monitors, while established, provide logical partitioning and nothing more) that transparently locates and consumes remote execution resources?