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Offline Quixote

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Re: New AmigaOS???
« on: November 18, 2008, 04:14:21 PM »
;-) Gotta jump in on the cell phone arguement; I am surfing Amiga.org via my cell phone on the way home from work this morning, and posting this now via cell phone.

I can send e-mail, download files, and so on.  Ironically, I even have an Amiga emulator installed, MyUAE.

Today's cell phone hardware has left classic Amiga hardware in the dust of ages past, and it's a shame.  What I really want is to see my cell phone available in an AmigaOS version, instead of just Windows® Mobile and Palm® Versions.

Bill McEwen mentioned a while back that Amiga, Inc. had missed a deal that would have put AmigaOS on a device that "would sell in greater numbers than the iPhone," if I recall his wording correctly.  Meanwhile, Palm has released two newer versions of my Tréo: the Tréo 800 and the Tréo Pro.  Both are availble only in Windows versions because they feature both bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and an inherit limitation of Palm OS is that it cannot manage three radios at once.  Soooo, we must wait until a new version of Palm OS is created from scratch while retaining existing Palm API's.

:-? Could this have been the deal that Amiga missed?
 

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Re: New AmigaOS???
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2008, 08:07:56 AM »
:-( A sensible company isn't going to partner with another in a big way when ownership of the other's assets is contested.

Besides, Amiga, Inc. cannot work with source code that they do not physically posses.  So, until the dispute is settled, A, inc. cannot produce anything you or I could purchase.  That's an awkward situation for any company to be in.