Motorola has stoped developing the 680xx processors right? So what new processor technology is the new OS4 built on? What language is used? I've seen there are no SDKs out which is really bad. If Amiga wants to rise, they need the supporting community to start developing software for OS4. What is the point of a new OS if there are no applications available for it?
PPC. There is an ever-so-slight problem of chicken and egg here. Regardless of SDKs, it' s a tad difficult to develop for a currently non-existent platform. Any current developers know how they'll need to develop stuff for OS4, but newcomers are what the platform needs.
As Hyperion/AI have said before, OS4 is just the beginning, to get something "out there" with a reasonable compliment of basic new features. Once OS4 is released and shipping on AmigaOnes, then people outside the community will begin to see that the platform is actually running again and isn't just being powered by vapour.
After OS4 come more features to bring AmigaOS back up to scratch to be able to compare with other operating systems, and to draw in new [newbie] customers.
The most important applications...
True.
The OS must be cross platform compatible. It must be able to read / write files from other systems (Microsoft, Mac, Linux / Unix).
Presumably you mean it must be able to read other operating systems *filesystems*, rather than their files. Of course it can "read" and "write" to the files, they're just files, but if you mean "can it read and properly parse a Word file", then no. That's the job of another piece of software, as is the case on every platform.
Open Source!!! Linux is now a serious threat to Windows - only because of open source concept. I believe that developing programs with the open source principle is a good start for the rise of Amiga.
The platform still needs an army of developers, open sourcing or not. Personally I think it needs a 50/50 mix of the two types, commercial and opensource. The platform has to get back into the OS race quickly in order to keep its current supporters and to attract newcomers.
In the end; no one wants to use a system that cannot be used with other systems.
That's a
very broad term. Care to elaborate?
Preventing users to go through a new learning curb will highly improve the attitude towards the Amiga OS (and GUI).
I disagree to a certain extent. I agree once you get to the extreme of "horrendous amounts to be learnt otherwise you can't use anything on the platform". However, talking about "preventing users from going through a learning
curve" is tantamount to saying "it should work just like Windows". Which we don't want. Thinking that users shouldn't have to learn anything just helps perpetuate the same kind of user ignorance that is rife today.
I don't think users should have to learn everything there is to learn about a platform, but at the moment there is an attitude of not wanting to learn "because they shouldn't have to". A good practical working knowledge for using a computer: installing apps, knowing where you put your files, steering clear of trojans/viruses, file management, and general day-to-day apps usage (everything they need to know to do what they need to do regarding that app).
It really gets my back up when I've told the same person for the fiftieth time how to find the Control Panel on Win9x and they still have to ask. This is because that kind of person places no value on learning that kind of thing. To me, that would be like a person owning a car and having to have a techie to switch on the stereo for them.
