New AmigaOS???

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Because he's known as "He who is in the place of embalming?"

Anubis, he patron god of embalmers: during the funerary rites of mummification, illustrations from the Book of the Dead often show a priest wearing the jackal mask supporting the upright mummy.

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The trouble with defining Amiganess is that there is no company to define what Amiganess is.  CBM folded, Escom make a fat Elvis attempt and finally was buried.  Since then there has been nobody to define Amiganess.  The current leaseholder (subletter actually) of the Amiga name only makes Windows Mobile games.  So we are left to define what Amiga is.

The trouble is that we can't agree, and after 13 years in the wilderness the majority of remaining Amigans are retro oriented, not a good group to create a new Amiga OS....

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To anyone who thinks there will be "millions" of Amiga users...

I want what you're smoking!

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Bill had just returned from Columbia that day I think.  Nobody turns down a deal that has numbers bigger than iPod over something as small as the dispute between Hyperion and Amiga.  

Here's what I think happened.  CECT was out looking for an OS for their iPhone clones and approached many companies, Amiga Inc included.  Amiga Inc sat on it and  ATI’s NUCLEUS+ for RTOS was chosen.  Accelerated Technology (a division of Mentor Graphics) didn't become rich and neither would have Amiga Inc...

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My point is there was a settling point, it involved some cash and some concession on AmigaDos ownership on Amiga Inc.'s part.  Both concessions were small potatoes if Bill's letter is correct.  We've all known Hyperion's terms for years.  Agreeing to those terms would have, if Bill is correct, brought AmigaDos to millions of iPhone/iPod clones.  It's not a hard business decision, 100% of nothing versus 95% of millions...

But that's why I think it was CECT, the customer was looking for an OS on the cheap, it would have been in hundreds of thousands of devices like the 168, i9 etc, but the return would have been very small...

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Exactly, even if they settled with Hyperion on Hyperion's terms they could not have converted OS4 to run on the CECT phones.  My guess is that CECT remebered the Amiga Inc. name and didn't realise that they weren't actually talking to the company that produced the Amiga computer (or anything really except a rebranded Tao Intent).

Now if CECT want to use the Amiga brand like Apple users the it's brand on mobile phones then the deal would have been interesting.  Am "Amiga iPhone" to compete with the "Apple iPhone."  

We'll never really know the truth, whether they we close, whether Hyperion could have delivered in Amiga's name.  Just another puff of smoke from the Master Puffer, Bill....

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I was warned, Anubis ate my chickens last night....