OS4 enthusiasts: What's your AmiWest expectations?

[OlafS3]

I know this is straying from the thread topic (entirely my fault for listing fantasty 'Amiwest' announcements) but it seems today we have so many options available to us, it's sad to see the platform stagnating.   Even if we stick with PPC I'm assuming there are more modern, affordable CPU options;  how do the modern IBM power CPUs compare to PA6 in terms of unit cost?

I don't mean to detract from Trevor's efforts with the X1000 - I'm talking about the lower/entry/SAM level.

Anyway, back on topic ... does no one else have Amiwest expectations?

Noone :-)

when asked about 4.2. Steve Solie will say "all on track" but too early to announce something, Trevor will propably show his new toy(s) "X2000" (or how it will be called).

[OlafS3]

"rewrite of the C language"? :-)

[OlafS3]

Magnetic: the infamous os4 laptop that was "already running"

It wouldn't surprise me if it was running, in a bare form (the underlying kernel?), at Hyperion, with the boot security code / check removed, purely as a proof of concept.  Running != usable.

Wasn't there a rumour of an X86 build too?   Wasn't sure if this was developers making a proof of concept or something started on amiga.org purely to fan the flamewars...

X86 build? I cannot believe that. Steve Solie used a error in a library (that was removed not long ago) as evidence that AmigaOS is based on the original sources. So at least parts of it are even 68k, others are propably asm to be more efficient. If it is not developed from start off to be portable it is difficult to port it to another hardware. One of the MorphOS guys estimated it would take years to port MorphOS to X86 (of course I do not know how long it would take to port a unusable base system) so Hyperion will certainly not be faster.

[OlafS3]

It was a comment made on this page:

"Steve has an amazing grasp of Amiga programming, so much so that he has re-written the "C" language to make it more Amiga efficient"

It has now been edited.

LOL

Obviously I underestimated Steve Solie :-)

Seriously

Sometimes they have the tendency to "overhype"