AROS has no chance in the future if...

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nagaflas wrote:

iamaboringperson wrote:

*It doesn't use memory protection.
*It doesn't take advantage of SMP.
*It isn't multi-user.
*It doesn't go 64-bit eventually

It would also be nice if it had a half-decent web-browser and office suite.

You can add to that list:

*It does not integrate 68k/full Kickstart emulation.

Using original programs within UAE just does not cut it for me.

I'd like to run my old programs without having to track down the source code, rewriting portions of that code and crossing my fingers as it recompiles in hopes that it will work under AROS.

This is the main reason why I have stayed away from it (no offense, I've used AROS and think it's great, but if it can't run legacy software in its original binary form, then its inability to exploit the Amiga's vast software library really makes it unattractive to me).

I'm in the "wait n see" stage right now concerning AROS.

Iama was refering to AROS having a future, not about it's ability to live in the past... The concerns he raised were legitimate, since these are standard features of a medern operating sytem.

It's now well over a decade since any serious software was made for the Amiga platform, and any software that I might want to use hits the hardware... in which case I would use UAE or a real Amiga anyway. If the software doesn't hit the hardware, the chances are that the source code is in C and still exists in the hands of an active developer... who would do well to compile it for AROS.

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Well no one is holding a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to use AROS. You don't have to make any form of comitment to try it out... well, maybe a CD-R. If you try it and you like, great! if you try it and you don't like it, great, use something else!

I don't think that any of the Amigoid OS's have much of a "future"... and certainly, now MacOSX is running on sensible hardware, I doubt any OS is ever going to be able to keep up.

What the Amigoids do have, is a place in the hobby market... however one chooses to go about their hobby is up to them. I prefer not to spend 1000s of pound to support my computing hobby, I like it to be an off shoot of my personal and work related computing work. Only AROS can fill that role for me (and quite a few others)... thus it has a future!