My personal opinion is...
I also studied EE (electronic Engineering) and this man in my eyes is a legened.
You have to expect some predjudice for a bloke woh phisicaly worked on H/W and helped shaped software for a extremely important PC of our era.
I tend to agree with him, Morph OS was targeted at the ami community, otherwise we wouldn't have it, weather it's called Morph or OS4 or BeOs is irrelevent. I don't like the way Morph has further split the community up when it's already way to small but hey, it has, it's here is it any good, who knows. I'm going to look at BeOs as it will run on a platform I don't need to shell out for so who knows. The thing is, OS4 is going to keep AMIGAs being made and built, it carries the legacy behind it and tries to maintain it. The H/W orrigionaly designed was the OS's base, they were designed in tandum to comliment each other and lead to radicle new designs being implemented, even Dave sais it's origional design was so ahead of it's time and helped him florish as an engineer.
I can't claim to be an engineer but I Still marvel at what was achieved at the time, even now things like the antiquated Zorro design still amazes me. It was never dubbed 'Plug and Pray' as the OS worked with it in a way that PC users are only starting to come to expect. This was the computer we now debate.
The platform may change but the AMIGA, it's the origional OS of choice, the clones, are that, clones of an idea. The H/W like Dave sais when designs are good and are standards, USE THEM. PCI was excelent!, VESA sucked I was horrified because it was in debate with PCI to be the standard. I'm SSSOOOO glad PCI won, because it seemed to be another VHS/BETA scenero but for the PC industry, coming forwards.
I for one would like to see how much better than the clones and other OSs on offer the new AMIGA OS can be. It's long overdue and people Like Dave H and Carl S are and can be only of benifit to the community, they have all had a major part in keeping this small but continued community together. Remember, they helped make the PC and OS. There would be no community without them and they are still willing to be a part of it, like you just read.
They are a wealth of information and ability. This community can only benifit from them in my eyes, ther are the godfather and not grandfather, they still make contributions to the IT world and they are not behind in ideas, they have a lot of knowledge and think in radicle ways thanks to the amazing work done in Mexico.
I still regard Dave H with awe, he and his are amazing in what they achieved in computing.
Dave, your a legened, and one of the reasons I took an interest to study !
Great Article, thanks!
Now back to the books. End of personal opinion.....
