Next step for Amiga(like)OS?

[Manu]

I agree with koaftder, and I am pretty sure if Commodore
had survived they would have been forced to start to use
"common" hardware just like all other in the business.

To me both MorphOS and AmigaOS is dead end because they
are still living in their own sandbox. Amiga can't extend
it's userbase enough with just sticking to home-made hardware.

Just look at the current situation, new versions and only
crap hardware to run them on, not even a laptop..and we are
living in 2008 for **** sake.  :crazy: There's not a even
a tiny chance userbase could grow beoynd 5000 with what they
are doing today.

I'm not looking back, I gladly use what's out there Win, Linux, Macs. If AROS one day can handle my web needs I have
a spare laptop for it.

[Manu]

@persia

Moving to Intel would put the OS side by side with Linux, Win, OS X and all the obscure alternative OSs. It would be just another flavor of PC.
Besides this, there would be the nightmare of writing drivers for tons of different hardware. Linux guys have it, and there are tons of programmers writing stuff for it...

Eh? The OS is side by side all others already, it only
makes it 100 times worse to have it on an obscure platform.

Drivers is made today also aren't they ? It's better to develop drivers for hardware that EXISTS than first have
to find a harware manufacturer and THEN wait XX months for
their board to get ready and which anyway will cost many many times more and is much slower.