So were the Morph OS folks wrong all along?

[runequester]

The complaint levelled against OS 4 was always that the hardware was too expensive for what it did, and that the only reason people were clinging to it was the name.
 
The complaint levelled against CUSA is that the hardware is too expensive for what it does, and that the only reason people are clinging to it is the name.
 
 
Everything thats wrong is right again?
The world is backwards?
 
 
EDIT: In order to facilitate discussion:
 
Does the name matter?
What makes a machine amiga?
Is anything post CBM amiga?

[runequester]

well, I guess thats where the question comes in: Was it just the name all along?

[runequester]

But they've got Amiga badges. And they're authorized by the IP holder.

Im inclined to agree with you that the software is what makes it so.
 
It seems that these days, the name is what counts. I guess thats how the world works now

[runequester]

Its gotta be, otherwise a Mac is a PC.

On the flipside, a powerPC mac can be a PC by running linux

[runequester]

What linux do you run on your 1200's btw?
I know there's a 68K Debian.

[runequester]

They've more or less told us how they'll quack. It'll rhyme with "ununboo"

Dammy over on Moobunny keeps insisting it'll be something entirely different.

I find it very hard to believe, but Im willing to be surprised.

[runequester]

Frankly, that wouldn't bother me that much. Probably a better solution than AmigaXL (on top of QNX) was.
Is Hyperion's OS that much better? Would you feel better with an X86 version of AOS4 or a new version of Amithlon?

Iguess Im not in a hurry for it to all be "remade". Keep classic classic. For everything else, there's linux

[runequester]

Then you're closer to buying a C=USA product than I am.

'Cause I would rather use MorphOS than either AOS3.x or Linux.

Nah. I got a 300 dollar PC that does everything I want from a day to day computer. I'll use that until it breaks, then get whatever is the same price class at that time.

[runequester]

That's amusing. I'm posting this from an Athlon 64 5000+ based system that's mutated over the last several years to the state its in now. Not a single part is less than 2 years old (including the 9600GSO video card) and I think its got about $300 currently invested in it (and it would still outrun a C64x).

I thought of building my own, but I didn't want to go through the hassle of having everything shipped individually and paying for shipping 8 times. So I went to fry's electronics and grabbed the cheapest system they had

Wiped vista from it, installed linux and voila. (though I later swapped ubuntu for kubuntu)

[runequester]

What makes a machine amiga?

Playing Slamtilt Pinball and rendering logos in Aladdin are Amiga enough :rtfm:

Slamtilt is righteous

[runequester]

Wasn't the jaguar actually two 32bit chips.
 
I bought one years after they came out.  Thought they were awful

They had some sort of convoluted scheme to make it "add up" to 64 bits. Apparently also made it really hard to code for

[runequester]

In my opinion the only Amiga's are the A1000, A500/+, A600, A1200, A2000, A2500, A3000, A3000T, A4000, A4000T and CD32 and even though its not branded as such, the CDTV. (Did i miss any models?)

I guess the A1500 if you want to be really obscure