Dr. Garry Hare Amiwest Speech

[Colin_Camper]

"but from what I can tell, there's no indication that there will ever be an OS4.1?"

I thought that, because most of what was going to be 4.1 is going into 4.0, that 4.1 was just going to be a bug fix boing bag.

My take on Garry's speech is that he wants to develop AmigaOS into a ultra fast, lean and stable OS. The Tao renegotiations speak volumes about the pivotal role intent will have in all this. Prepare for an AmigaOS running on VP!

I can't see any problem with any of this....

[Colin_Camper]

My take on it was that DE will interface with the "other devices" (phones, etcetera) while AmigaOS will serve as the link to the desktop, helping all these devices talk to one another. This in itself has not changed since 2000.

Well, this is just as plausable as my scenario - we'll have to wait and see!  :-)

Well, that is an optimistic view. The pesimistic view would be that he really only cares about the VP

Don't forget KMOS bought AmigaOS a year ago and have only just bought Ainc(AmigaDE). I'm sure that it's amigaOS that they are really keen on and now see intent as a way of getting it onto the various platforms. Obviously if intent was all they were after then they could have bypassed Amiga inc and signed with Tao, alone. But they must also have found the whole AmigaOS/AmigaDE/Intent thing quite compelling as an entity. Perhaps Bill McEwen and Fleecy made the pitch of their lives!  :-)