OS 4.0 on a Mac...

[JKD]

Yes and the same applies to MorphOS. Although the entry level price tag is slightly less painful on Pegasos, having MOS or OS4 on a Mac is having your cake and eating it (as the saying goes..)

"Woohoo, i can get a sexy machine, run OSX native instead of lower performing MOL kludge and *dual boot* to Amiga OS...."

Well...like Amithlon users do on x86

FWIW Same reasoning as why no AOS x86

Steve

[JKD]

Seehund,
   I love your arguement but it implys that traditional business models and economics apply to the 'Amiga like' computers....but they don't.

The reality of it is that development (and support) of Amiga OS or an 'Amiga like' OS probably costs far more than the projected return...

Widen the hardware base and the development and support costs escalate.

Genesi/bPlan have the 'bundled' route - the OS is 'free' with the hardware. This is the 'Apple' model...stick with known hardware, control the software..control the total solution cost.

Hyperion/Eyetech/KMOS/AInc have some undisclosed deal. The OS seems to be also bundled 'free' at this point in time. I'm not smart enough to fathom the deal but it seems that:

AInc gets $ for use of the Amiga name
KMOS gets $ because they 'own' the OS
Eyetech has to make their margin on the hardware
Someone pays Hyperion for the OS (kickback from hardware sale?)

Steve