MorphOS 2 vs. AmigaOS 4.1 (pros/cons)

[Piru]

Solid movement/resize of windows are faster on OS4.

I would say they're as fast. Both use gfxcard hardware for GUI rendering these days. It depends more on the performance of the gfxcard really.

Cygnix is available on OS4.

And MorphOS has ixemul.

@KimmoK

both dream about the not-anymore-in-production MacMini.

dream?

[Piru]

@KimmoK

But my point is that it's not a huge advantage because PPC Macintoshes are no longer in production etc.

They're a) cheaper b) faster c) easily available via ebay or other 3rd party markets d) likely remain the fastest even remotely feasible platform for any forseeable future.

PEG2 was pretty much superior to the current offerings. I wonder if there is further production run in plans?

Not that I know of.

If you think Peg2 is superior.. well Mac Mini runs circles around Peg2 G4.

[Piru]

@Varthall

Which aren't the same thing. Cygnix provides a complete X11 environment

ixemul had it 12 years ago already. Most of the stuff would require configure && make.

I guess no-one bothers with those X11 apps.

[Piru]

@Varthall

Personally I've gotten too used to M$ Office for Mac to learn anything else. Yes, it's my failure. ;-)

[Piru]

@zyphoid

how is it that we "morphos" doesn't have a abiword port using the same logic?

The problem is that everyone seems to have a thumb up their *ss. There is nothing preventing the port, except someone actually bothering with it.

With these niche platforms it usually boils down to:
A) learn to program and do it yourself,
B) convince someone else to do it, or
C) forget about it.

So far everyone has chosen C it seems.


I'm sorry it's late and I'm not very receptive to rethorical questions at this hour. My apologies.