Dominant future AmigaOS? MOS vs OS4 vs AROS

[bloodline]

The dominatant system will simply be the one which prvides the following:

1. A customisable Amiga environment.
2. Gives good Price to performance ratio.
3. Has the "Killer Apps".

I personally think all three projects can forefill requirement 1.
The price performance requirement is a subjective one, depending on what hardware you have now, and how much it was cost to use the OS.
As for requirement 3... I'll bet that any app worth it's salt will probably be ported to all three... (Though I imagine, the MOS team and Hyperion could probably secure a few exclusive deals).

So... to me the future look uncertain, but then again I've already made my choice...  :-)

[bloodline]

zacman wrote:
I think you cannot compare AROS to OS4 or
MorphOS because AROS has different aims.

Comparing OS4 and MOS: the company which has
more money will win at the end.

Heheheh, that's very very true!!!  :-D

[bloodline]

I forgot to include the "fun factor" in my list...

Concidering all three OS's are hobby OS's it is important to remember that these OS's should be fun to use. And that I guess depends on what you want to use it for!!
Being a frustrated control freak, I prefer to be able to "hack" away at the internals of the OS and see what happens... That makes the Open source option best for me.

[bloodline]

dammy wrote:
by DaveP on 2003/6/1 7:22:36

Id also like to know if you have used OS4 and if so, which build?

MOS is inferior in its usability to AOS3.5/9 in at the least the Ambient stakes ( based on an over the shoulder waggle or twenty with the mouse ) and from my experience of OS4 *very* inferior to that.

But maybe you mean something else?

Then again, OS4 is inferior to AROS because OS4 is *vaporware*.    Until iOS4 released to the public, it's going to remain inferior to any OS, even Windows.

Dammy

With all due respect to Hyperion, I must say it would be nice to see some real evidence of AOS4.
So far I've only seen some screen shots of something that looks like AmigaOS... but nothing that can't already be done with AmigaOS 3.1 (or AROS for that matter) or easily faked.

-Edit- What I'd like is a downloadable (time/feature/whatever) limited demo, that I can put on my A1200 (with it's Blizz PPC) and run and see for myself.

[bloodline]

AmiGR wrote:
It's silly for one reason... The one who dominates the
Amiga market is NOT the winner. Every team will start
targeting other markets, thus following other paths.

Hahahaha, I like that: "The one that gets the Amiga Market is not the winner", talk about cussing the Amiga community :-D

A better Topic is: "Which Clone is the most interesting and/or has the most interesting future..."

[bloodline]

alx wrote:
@BBRV

Out of interest, why would you like the Atari name?  MorphOS has always been similar to AmigaOS (and will stay pretty much compatible with it through the ABox), but it doesn't have any similarity with Atari.  IMO "Pegasos" is a good name anyway.

Besides, most of your users will probably believe that Atari lost the Amiga/Atari wars.  And even if you say that "Atari is coming back to beat Amiga" it won't make much sense as many MorphOS users would consider themselved "Amigans" :-D

I couldn't agree more... Pegasos is a cool name... And I think I speak for most when I say... Atari sucks...  :-D   Sorry but old habbits die hard  ;-)

Given that the Peg run MOS and soon AROS...(both clearly Amiga inspired)  it a bit weird to call a machine Atari.

Can't you just buy Amiga Inc.? How hard can it be?