Good old videos os AMIGA and Commodore 64!

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@B00tDisk

I'm so sick of reading posts like this.
If you are intending to say that their is no more room for another computer OS or system in todays IT world, I would say to you, wake up. Because that's what your saying by telling everyone an OS is dead and buried and won't survive in these times.

There is plenty of room for a number of new platforms. It wasn't so long ago Linux arrived, quite some time after the amiga, and when it was FIRST released, it could do nothing more than shell commands as it didn't even have a working GUI at that time, yeah, that's right, X-Windows wasn't working! while the IBM clones of the time had windows and browsers and internet, heck, they even had printing! Something Linux users praised the lord when gostscript came along.

Now, to have a totaly niche based computer OS develop into what it is now from those humble begginings and against those odds (M$, Apple) it just goes to show you, without USB, Ethernet (which came 4 generations or 8 months later, I know, because my friend was President of Linux club in Australia and committed the Ethernet code), no printers, or browsers, this OS took off and chased the very heals of Microsoft themselves to a stage where most now consider it to be the only OS to use if safety on the internet is your primary concern.

So really, take a good look at the IT world before making a statement of such, there it is a very big dynamic world of technology, and AMIGA has just as much a chance at this as Linux did. Yes, even now in 2005! it doesn't take much to look at history to proove that one.

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@ Bootdisk

>"Oh grow up.

>It isn't a matter of what there is or isn't room for in the >market. The simple matter is that the Amiga has all but >disappeared in terms of user-base, okay? There's what, >maybe a thousand or so serious users?"

Grow up???

I will try perhaps when you do your homework!

It was the very same thing for Linux when it first started. An extremly small userbase with next to no support and months of waiting for updates and features, yet it still managed to grow. It's not a debate, simple fact and there is NO reason as to why that can't happen with AMIGA OS. None.


>"What's that you say? What about Linux? Linux didn't happen >in a vacuum either. If Linux had required some hardware >widget that didn't exist when it was concieved, it would've >gone down without a ripple. But it ran (rather, runs) on >cheap PC hardware. And it's still a tiny fraction of the PC >desktop market, and nowhere near a majority in the server >market."

>"Why do people like you throw a fit when confronted with >facts? Sheesh."

As for running on cheap PC hardware, it also runs on very expensive SUN hardware and a mirriad of other expensive Machines!
Are these the facts you were thinking I was fitting over
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@ hattig

Perhaps.
Look, as far as I'm concerned it all boils down to this.
If there is enough demand for the product, the product will continue to grow and things will inveitably get cheaper.

It(Amiga os) doesn't work on the x86 platform and there was discussion on following the other main contender to this CPU which ended up being the PPC core.
There are very few competing OS's on this platform and I think therefore makes sense to show off something different on this side. The real only contender on this PPC CPU is Apple and ok, Linux which can be compiled to run on just about everything now.
Still, there's no Microsoft to deal with, yet, and this could be a new beginning for another OS that I believe to be a great OS with loads of potential.

Time will tell, but AMIGA OS certainly isn't dead, it's about to begin and there's heaps of room in the IT world left for a number of OS's yet.
I remeber when this type of dicussion was aimed at Linux. People were saying, your all stupid, no one will use it, why would they, it won't run windows apps.
Clearly it has lived and grown past all that now.

I for one believe AMIGA OS could also become a super OS, given time, and interest in it!