Thoughts on the A1Lite and mainstream markets

[DonnyEMU]

The new Amiga has to do three things to have a market for itself..

1) Attract New Users
2) Offer Applications on par with industry standard ones
3) Offer unique capabilities

Debating the OS or what processor instruction set is present and if Bill Gates is involved or not really misses the point.. China is a technology leader in the world market. If they can do their own manned spacecraft they can certainly do their own computing architecture, in both software and hardware. I expect China to "go their own way" as they continue to do in everything else.

I bought my Amiga not because of "power without the price" (that's an atari concept). I bought it for it's animation, desktop video, and unique applications. So far I can't always see those things in the new Amiga, just a familiar OS. Time will tell though..

-Don

PS to all the Windows haters out there.. Windows has done one thing really smart with the move to .net, they can support different target processors (thanks to the Common Language Runtime) and Direct X is such a complete solution for media. If multimedia gets more integrated with the Windows UI such as it is with longhorn (see lapping along longhorn video then the Amiga has a chance of keeping up.. You should watch the video and tell me if the Amiga can do this..

[DonnyEMU]

In the next Windows there is a new Windows GUI (presentation) system language called XAML Application Markup Language).. The code for creating a windows interface is now XML based..

Here's some example code taken from  a MSDN article  MSDN XAML article


  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/xaml"
  xmlns:def="Definition"
  def:Class="Application3.Window1"
  Text="My Three Rectangles">
 
   
     
   
   
   
   
   

 


 and the app it produces..



I think XML offers us all great opportunities for the future. I want to see this type of thing not just in windows but other OSes (Amiga, BeOS, SkyOS, etc. even linux kiddos)..

XAML is a great idea..

[DonnyEMU]

I see XAML as a progression of XML.. As far as security holes go have you noticed that this stuff gets compiled? You really need to take a better look at the technology before commenting on it and making such statements and look into how it handles transactional processing (which I didn't even go near in the example).

The reality of this is, that anytime you give users any kind of OS extendibility there is going to be option for security holes. We could talk about Amiga and it's file permissions or the fact that the Amiga was the first computer I had ever seen that got a virus.

Nothing ever is totally secure and if it is, it's probably useless. What I have learned with computers is that there where there is a will there is a way to "exploit" security... Whether it be linux windows amiga or any platform.

The idea of making a UI totally programmable as "objects" is a great idea..  I look forward to XAML support in Outlook or whatever.. I also look forward to the new "longhorn" role based permissions and security model which you really haven't put the two together and you should before making such comments..