OSX Leopard is released, looks like the new Amiga. No joke!

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What's annoying is that Gateway-Amiga plans were essentially along the same lines.  I wonder if, had the MMC been released with a QNX or Linux based core, we'd be enjoying similar success right now.

Indeed - in an alternative Universe, a company might have bought the Amiga rights, then selected NeXT as the next generation OS, and now it'd be Amiga OS X instead.

It's just names and trademarks really. Those who prefer classic AmigaOS to Mac OS X would still be running the former (presumably not wanting to wait six years to get multiple workspaces again...) whilst the rest of the world viewed it as a continuation of the Amiga platform.

But since that didn't happen, instead you could always slap an Amiga sticker onto a modern Mac instead

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MarkTime wrote:
The commentary here, reminds me that no one has jumped up and down and said, but its not really Mac OS!!!!  It's really just FreeBSD with a Mac layer!

Of course not...it is Mac OS.  

It's obviously not FreeBSD, but it's not what used to be Mac OS either - the brand name "Mac OS" refers to two distinct platforms.

I know, I come at things sideways, but I'm thinking about the whole discussion once upon a time about the next version of Amiga and using QNX or Linux core, and especially Linux, to jump start Amiga OS development.

Amiga Inc. would have still had their work cut out for them, developing the higher level Workbench that ran on top of the Linux core, and I think no one, would have claimed it was really Linux...or at least, such an idea wouldn't have gotten any traction, any more than we think of Mac OS X is FreeBSD...even though in fact the core is based on FreeBSD 5.0.

Actually, I remember lots of people moaning about how it wouldn't be a "real Amiga", because it was running QNX and didn't have a custom chipset.

Hell, I even see people saying that the AmigaOne and OS 4 aren't real Amigas, even though they're much more closely related to the classic Amigas than modern Macs are anything to do with classic Macs...