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Offline Tension

Re: Ben Hermans still staunchly against x86
« on: October 25, 2010, 11:58:46 PM »
I would love to be able to turn on my laptop and boot AmigaOS natively, without any other operating systems required.  If this was possible, the Amiga community would expand exponentially.

It would, of course, have to be totally free and easy to install on a huge variety of hardware.

But as has been mentioned here before, that would be such a mammoth task that it is just unrealistic.

Until that moment arrives, we're always gonna be stuck with hardware that is outdated before it is even released.

What a bloody shame.

Offline Tension

Re: Ben Hermans still staunchly against x86
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2010, 06:08:24 PM »
David Pleasance wanted Amigas to run Windows NT.

That would've been pretty shit.

Thus, if Commodore UK had won the auction, we'd all have left the Amiga ages ago anyway.

We've had our PPC bed made for us, and now it's time to lie in it.

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Re: Ben Hermans still staunchly against x86
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2010, 02:51:26 AM »
Quote from: Fats;587558
* Citation needed.

Never heard about this before. Could you provide a reference ?

greets,
Staf.


IBM and Commodore had a deal where OS/2 was allowed to use the GUI from Workbench, and CBM could use the Rexx system.

... Or something like that...