Dave Haynie (lead engineer of C= Amiga) opinion on Amiga Successors

[dammy]

AROS cannot qualify as an operating system until they have their own kernel.

Then AROS has been a Operating System for five plus years.  Your not under the misunderstanding that it's all hosted, are you?

BTW, AROS should be AMD64 native in the coming months. See this bounty.

Dammy

[dammy]

I wish AROS well, but without official support, I don't see them becoming more than a hobbyist OS. An official Amiga x86 release could potentially be more.

If you think any BoingBall OS is going to make a dent in the desktop market, your in for a rude awakening.  Is AROS a hobbiest OS?  Sure, right along with MOS and OS4.  They are all hobbiest OSs and anything beyond that is mearly an exercise in fantasy or out right delusions.

Dammy

[dammy]

edit- one other thing...I believe the only hope for success is if the system has the name Amiga. There is still value in the tired old girl, believe it or not. While Aros and Morphos are worthy efforts and nicely done, they will never experience the widespread acceptance that Amiga potentially could with the release of a new hardware/software platform, even if it is x86 based. Aros and Morphos are great for hobby computers if that is all you want. If there is any hope of a return to levels where major software houses port recent software, it lies solely in the hands of the name that started it all...Amiga...and in my opinion the AmigaOne and Amy type names need to go the way of the dodo. Any new hardware/software platform should return to the naming scheme from the old days... something like...Amiga 1100...Amiga 510...Amiga 610...Amiga 2200...Amiga 3300...etc.

Which has been proven untrue by A1 unit sales.  The "Amiga" market is not a financially viable market.  

Dammy

[dammy]

Ok there is enough logic in your post, that even I can see that the only future for now is x86. Scary.

X86 is dead, X86-64 is the future.

Dammy