Starrunner wrote:
Who won the on and off battles for Amiga means little. in the end we all lost. There will never be another Amiga made in any form. And if anyone buys it, it will be the same BS we have been through for the last decade plus change.
Man... I'm gonna get banned from here for saying this... I haven't said this before, and I promise not to say it again.
It wouldn't have mattered anyway if the Amiga had won the race. The pile of chips in your machine right now would be about the same regardless of who won. The idea of delegating operations specific to certain tasks like sound, audio and other things was obvious and already implemented in other systems long before the Amiga became a reality.
The Amiga was just one of the first to market in a cost efficient manner. The Amiga operating system was pretty much just an elegant hack that never had the intention from inception to ever hold a candle to Unix in terms of reliability.
True preemptive multitasking and memory protection were concepts pioneered and realized in the 1960's. And here it is in 2007 and os4 still doesn't have proper memory protection.
I guess you'd ask why I'm hitting Amiga sites and maintaining my Amigas. Amiga was my inspiration. I was 6 when my dad took me into a software store and I saw the juggler projected on a wall. At that point I knew I wanted to write software for a living. I consider myself a lucky kid. I'm still not a game programmer, but hey, life isn't perfect.
