Which OS Would Be The Best Amiga Way Forward...

[Karlos]

I had such a rough week I didn't understand the question so defaulted to "Pancakes".

[Karlos]

I always like the Amithlon big-endian-memory-model for 68K emulation on little endian architectures. For x86 you will naturally lose some performance doing the byteswap for every 16/32/64-bit access (although emulation various memory to memory moves would not need it) but you have such a huge performance starting point (especially now) that I'm quite sure it would outperform currently available PPC-based amiga compatible systems.

[Karlos]

I can't speak for anybody else, but IMHO, variety is the spice of life. I'd hate to see either OS4, MorphOS or AROS fall by the wayside.

I've always wished I had the time and sufficiently in-depth knowledge of each platform to build a common runtime for deploying applications across them all without having to sacrifice too much in striving for the least common denominator. I realise, for example, that MUI and Zune work very differently to Reaction but in all honesty, there's no implementation difference between them (or indeed almost any GUI system) so great that the appropriate application of design patterns couldn't abstract it.