SAM 440 - What would owning one mean to you?

[jorkany]

darksun9210,

if i had the cash i'd get one. just to support the people still developing this stuff.

So it's a charity.

Would you buy a SAM440 if it didn't have any kind of connection to OS4 at all? If not, then who would you be supporting by buying one now - Acube or Hyperion?

Clearly the only reason people are buying SAM440 now is because it can run OS4. That's kind of at odds though with Acube's intention to market to embedded customers, seeing as how there is no demand for OS4 outside of the hobbyist community. If there was a demand, where is the company who would own OS4? It's been around for years, it seems like if these big time embedded companies out there wanted it one would have bought into it by now.

Yeah, yeah - one is likely to come around any day now, lol

Just wanted to add: nothing against Acube here, they've just chosen a really bad company to partner with for software. Acube produced the MiniMig, which is very good. Acube seems like a real company unlike most of the chuff that the Amiga community gets shafted with, but they have real bills to pay - and OS4 just doesn't pay the bills.

[jorkany]

A1260,

to make it crystal clear once and for all, this is an AMIGA site and not morpohs site!

It's not an OS4 site either. But since OS4 is Amiga-like, as is MorphOS, then discussion about both is topical.

[jorkany]

To me, the SAM 440ep clearly is an Amiga.

Would it still be an Amiga to you if it didn't run OS4? I bet not. But the real Amigas, even though they can't run OS4, are still Amigas. They would still be real Amigas even if they were used to run Unix or any other OS.