make an offer to buy Amiga Inc.

[huronking]

Woah buddy, I'm not sticking up for anybody.

You contradict yourself. If he literally meant two-button mouse why would he mean 'usage of the two buttons to manipulate menus'?

Get a life.

[AeroMan]

  You can't make a modern OS and still be compatible with 20 year old programs...

You can still run DOS programs on Windows XP (never tried that on Vista) I use Tango to open some old schematics we still produce today. They have more than 20 years difference, and are compatible.

I think the good part of the Amiga spirit that I really miss is inovation. It would be awesome to have a compatible today, but that would be really useful just for fans like us.

There is a place for something really innovative like the Amiga was at the 80's. Take a look at the PC's hardware. They are all the same crap, including Macs. All the "modern" OSs are mammoths, eating tons of disk space, RAM and processor power.

I would like to have all of these resources available to my software. I really believe there are many people in the world that are tired of waiting several minutes to boot their computers, tired of pressing ctrl-alt-del, and tired of waiting for simple things like window movement if the computer is busy.

Hope some company take the "Amiga way" and do something to change that. This is what I believe the Amiga was all about: do everything better, easier, faster and still have a nice price. It is not about being compatible with the past, but be the future today.

...now I will fall from the clowds and keep driving this stupid PC  :-(

[tokyoracer]

Il offer £2.50. That seems the right value for what the "Amiga" word is worth these days thanks to them.

[vk3heg]

ematech wrote:
Buy Amiga Inc. ?

I think is possible.

I'll give you two Pair's and a watter mellon for Acrank

:roll:

[whiteb]

vk3heg wrote:

ematech wrote:
Buy Amiga Inc. ?

I think is possible.

I'll give you two Pair's and a watter mellon for Acrank

:roll:

Universal typo Translator activated.

Two pear's and a Water Melon.

[Fransexy_]

Xerox Star was released in 1981 and had a two button mouse, no Commodore computers before that time had a mouse AFAIK, so I think you've been misinformed.

Xerox Alto was released in 1973 and it had 3 (yes three) mouse buttons




An impressive OS for 1973  :-o

[AeroMan]

Cool! this is the first picture of it I've ever seen...

[Steril707]

Wow, this must be one of the first pics of a running Smalltalk..

The Smalltalk browser hasn't changed a lot since then...  :-D

[HenryCase]

huronking wrote:
You contradict yourself. If he literally meant two-button mouse why would he mean 'usage of the two buttons to manipulate menus'?

The Chinese whispers effect. If he overheard something about two button mice used in a certain way in a GUI, but then only picked up on the two button mice statement.

In other words, you're saying he had a clue. I'm saying he didn't have a clue but how he may have got to the wrong answer.

Any clearer?

@Fransexy
The Xerox Alto looks very impressive, especially for 1973.