The Reason most of you (sigh) are still using the Amiga and more...

[mdwh2]

seer wrote:
(And this is a bit of a interesting quote;

The Amiga is over. What is currently calling it self and Amiga is nothing but a releatively standard PowerPC Reference Platform and some software written by some old fans of the Amiga and being marketed by five former Amiga Dealers/Commodore Sales-Marketing guys. There is nothing there that would justify the name--excepting that they are the holders of the trademarks.)

 :-o

Seems like he's grasping at straws to get rid of the guy pestering him imo. The gulf between Windows 2000/XP and DOS/Windows 3.1 is surely far greater than what will be between AmigaOS 4 and 3.x, and PCs are far more of a standard x86 platform, but that doesn't stop them developing for Windows 2000, and ppl would probably look at him strangely if he started saying "Windows is over".

[mdwh2]

Thinking about it a bit more, I suspect what he really means (at least, it's the only way that seems to make sense to me) is that the features which made the Amiga the ideal platform for Scala (ie, the chipset being more suitable than standard PC graphics cards) isn't something that applies to the AmigaOne/Pegasos (or any Amiga now, perhaps).

Which would be fair enough. But I don't think it makes sense to take this quote out of the context of the discussion about Scala, and consider it as a view on the Amiga's future in general (which is more than just Scala).