Was PCI for Amiga a good choice?

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Sure AOS is stuck in the past, especially if you use classic amiga with 3.1/3.9, which was released many many years ago. You could equally claim the same for windows, if you use 95/98/2000.
But AOS4.x is not stuck in the past, it is true, that you can't install it on any 68k based classic, but that does not change the fact that AOS4.x is not stuck in the past.

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I didn't know that the criteria for being 'stuck in the past' is the ability to be installed on 68k hardware.

That was not what I wrote, and I expect that you know that.

But let me comment on it anyway, the classic 68k is stuck in the past, my critery for saying that, is that it was developed last century, the 68k cpu has not been developed in, what close to 20 years, the same for the rest of the classic amiga. I know there are FPGA implementations and what not, of the classic, but they still have to conform to the very dated chipset, so does software running on 68k.

Compared to other actively developed commercial operating systems, AmigaOS 4.x is soooo stuck in the past.

That is your oppinium, I would not list that as a criteria, besides albeit slow progress, it is still developed.

but why don't you give me examples why AOS 4.x is stuck in the past, besides backwards compatability, which all OS's has, as you pointed out.

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3D support in the form of Warp3D, multicore, is well under way. There are plenty of hardware drivers, sure you can't pick any type of expansion, install it and expect it to run.
Amount of software has nothing to do with the operating system. There is a lot of software titles on os4depot, and yes a lot of them are ports, and so?
No one is stopping you developing your own software or drivers.