Do we have AMIGA OS anymore?

[Hattig]

KMOS have got the rights to use the name AmigaOS in relation to the next version of the operating system.

Not that I care. It could be called anything, as long as it was AmigaOS at heart (which it is).

What I suspect happened is that the investors were withholding money from Amiga Inc because they weren't happy with what Amiga Inc were doing. In the end they gave them the money they needed, in return for AmigaOS, the thing that was distracting Amiga Inc from what the investors were interested in, namely AmigaDE.

So Amiga Inc have nothing to do with the classic Amiga, or descendents of it now. They are doing the non-related AmigaDE stuff. Probably blocked from creating an AmigaOS version of it too now by the investors.

Maybe it will all be explained in next month's double-issue CAM.

[Hattig]

Which has been the MorphOS and AROS attitude from the beginning. It still doesn't stop people discriminating against them, unfortunately.

I don't mind AROS at all, I've used it.

I think people have issues against personalities on either side otherwise, and that turns them against what they produce.

MorphOS is a Quark kernel that has not much in common with AmigaOS, with an AmigaOS box on top. AROS is a nice clean complete reimplementation (shame that the Palm port died). AmigaOS4 derives from the classic AmigaOS, brought up to date, however the legacy creates some issues, most notably graphics.library.

[Hattig]

Over the years the only different OS plan for Amiga that I liked and approved of was QNX. It had a nice, clean interface. It had some pretty cool technology that was quite Amiga like in many ways. It was interesting.

It wasn't AmigaOS of course. A "classic amiga in a box" would have had to be written. It wasn't an ideal future, but at the time everything looked terrible.

Now AmigaOS has settled into acceptance that (at least for the next few years) it will be minor OS for the enthusiasts that like it. It can sit quietly, getting more users and getting better developed, until it has a featureset that has caught up with modern OSen, and runs on hardware that is feature comparable to modern hardware. Then we can see what will happen.