Amiga OS 5 has been out for a while. I believe it runs one program. Space Invaders as seen at CES.
No, I'm not kidding.
A little history of AmigaOS5.
From MACNN.com Amiga: OS5 better than Mac OS XAmiga CEO Bill McEwen has declared that his company's
OS5 will be better than Mac OS X, insisting that the
forthcoming operating system has much to offer while
refusing to give any details. Amiga's OS5 is well underway,
according to McEwen, who promised to serve up a
press release before the end of 2007 offering details on Amiga's
secret project. "Details for OS 5 will be made
public in the fourth quarter of 2007, and then you will
have a much clearer understanding and I will let you
decide if what I know to be true is accurate," the
executive said. OS5 is said to scale to its host hardware,
allowing the system software to run on anything from
mobile phones to consoles and servers. Amiga is currently
fighting a legal battle over OS4, but McEwen said OS5 is
ahead of schedule as he reiterated forthcoming
announcements in the fourth quarter of this year.Then later the next YEAR at CES:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/07/ces_amiga_os_5_surfaces/Amiga – the company – was ostensibly showing AmigaAnywhere 2, the new version
of its virtual machine technology. But taking Amiga President Bill McEwen aside for a
moment, we discovered that AmigaAnywhere 2 is AmigaOS 5.
"We had to call it that because of the Microsoft deal,” McEwen whispered. Amiga's had
close-ish ties with Redmond since 2002 at least when it began pitching the original
AmigaAnywhere for Windows CE.So the only thing ever seen running on AOS5 is a clone or Space Invaders. No gui nothing, just a straight port, and the claim that AA2/OS5 was running there underneath... Can you say M.A.M.E. anybody??
He said he'd let us decide what is clear and accurate.... so is AA2 -ie AOS5 "better" than OSX? I think I decided... decided to scrape something off my shoe and and mail it to Amiga Inc.
