AOS4 & Amigaone

[drHirudo]

At the end of the day, anyone stupid enough to pay $800+ for one of those things got what they deserved. I have no sympathy.

If you have no sympathy why don't you just quit and stop repeating yourself? There are greener fields in the horizon you are looking at, I am sure.

I paid 800+ Euro for my MicroA1, and I don't feel sorry about this. I received working board with working AmigaOS 4, and that's what I expected. The software releases and updates in the past months are more than what I expected.

Seems you are smarter, after calling people like me stupid, but your rant about the price shows that your aren't paid good enough else that $800+ wouldn't be a fortune for you. In the end of the day, I might be a stupid but I can spent big money for whatever I want, and I don't care what you think. And I am happy with my purchase, that's the most important.

P.S. If you are that smart, why aren't you wealthy enough to buy both solutions and decide from first hand which is better? Ok, just enjoy you free MorphOS T-Shirt and be happy.

[drHirudo]

Lots, maybe a majority, of adult employed people in the western industrialised world have $800. Amazingly enough, Eyetech have not sold a couple of hundred million "AmigaOnes" yet.

The AmigaOne isn't aimed to the majority of the adult employed people in the western industrialised world. It's releases till now were mostly for the current or past Amiga users, which are not that much nowadays.

With regards to the potential for survival and commercial viability of AmigaOS, the most important thing is not whether "drHirudo" is happy or not.

It's the most important for me. For me these 800 Euros were reasonable spent.

One usually can decide which hardware is better without buying it. Lando seems wealthy enough to buy an iBook G4 anyway...

I can buy one too, but it wouldn't run AmigaOS 4 Also a 14" monitor is not a good one. After getting used to 20", everything smaller than that is crap for me :-D

[drHirudo]

Which is why I champion the Open Source version of AmigaOS.

This is not a version of AmigaOS. From the site you are linking:

AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1,

It's a standalone operating system aimed at being compatible with AmigaOS, but it's not AmigaOS, like MorphOS is not an AmigaOS, despite it's also AmigaOS binary compatible (at some level). They don't belong to the AmigaOS version tree.

If I write an OS for university project, which is source or binary level compatible with Windows (at some degree) would that mean that I would write a version of Windows then?