The $500 000 Question: How much is Amiga *worth*?

[neon32]

I completely agree with you stone and i'm glad you said all that. I mean $20,000 for the Amiga name? come on! I swear some of the people around here must secretly work for microsoft or something..

[neon32]

Maybe because you've been so involved in the amiga that you have such strong views against it? Do you not think that other people beyond old fans of the amiga will be interested in OS 4 and beyond. Look at Linux for instance and how many people are switching to that over Windows, and i can't even stand Linux!
As long as we have people with dreams and developers to develop on the new amiga, thats what will bring it forward. I know for one i'll be selling my pc to buy one in the future.

[neon32]

Not directly related to the OS, but an extremely and increasingly important factor in my opinion - Complete and totally silent operation. (apart from hard disk noise if you have a hard disk installed)

[neon32]

I doubt all those people will think something more than "Amiga? that computer from 90s?", but ok... this discussion leads to nowhere anyway...

I think you'd be suprised snowman, especially over here in Europe.

[neon32]

But it's not really 12-14 year old technology. In my opinion it's only been since windows 2000 that even microsoft have really made any worthy progress beyond what Amiga OS offers as standard to the average user.

[neon32]

Dandy wrote:

As far as I remember already Win95 came with integrated browser and TCP/IP - something the Amiga OS is lacking up to now...

It's easy to talk about how important it is now to have a TCP-IP stack incorperated into the OS now that the internet has become such a big thing. Back in the early nineties the internet was nothing to what it is now. In a way you could consider it a fluke that the whole TCP-IP thing worked out, i'm pretty sure it wasn't expected or planned back then, if i remember correctly Bill Gates was quoted to saying that the internet is just a fad and people will get bored of it soon enough, so it's only because pc's where made to be used in offices and created so they could be networked together that they already had the features incorperated to allow the internet to develop the way it has.