The Next-Gen Amiga hardware

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lempkee wrote:
to me amigaone is an AMIgA , pegasos aint an amiga but an standalone machine that CAN emulate amiga if needed.

but the main problem is , it lives and breeds on the AMIGA term still even if its not supposed to (pegasos) , how come? ..because its made by fellow amiga people and was actually started out as the followup os to 3.9

I imagine a big factor is the fact that it's backwardly compatible with 68k Amiga software. To many, the features are more important than who has the trademark.

I mean, at the end of the day, the AmigaOne will also a standalone machine which can emulate 68k Amiga if needed. One machine is officially an Amiga, the other is a clone.

If OS4 gets released then the chances are that the two platforms will diverge in future - in which case, MorphOS will become less of an Amiga clone - perhaps a similar situation to OS/2 and Windows 95 following on from DOS/Windows.

Even now, people refer to MorphOS as "MorphOS" and not "AmigaOS". To be honest, I'm sure I see more people complaining that x (be it MorphOS, Amithlon, etc) isn't an Amiga, than people claiming it is..

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KingTutt wrote:
The problem with going to x86 is the massive hurdles faced when trying to support every x86 combo under the sun. Hyperion are a small company and if they want to make their OS viable, then they will opt for a smaller number of mainboards to support. I agree with them on this part.

You don't have to. They can simply only support one, or a small number of x86 motherboards. You could say a similar thing for PPC, since industry standard hardware will still be used - eg, claiming that having PCI slots means that have to support every PCI graphics card under the sun, so they'd be better off with AGA or Zorro.

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@Psy, Alkemyst

You can't copyright words at all. You can have them as trademarks, on the other hand..