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Posted on 01-Apr-2001 13:11 GMT by Christian Kemp63 comments
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Fleecy writes: AmigaOS4.0 will be launched in the summer, with 4.2 and 4.5 coming out at six month intervals. OS5 will be late next year.

He adds: People have buried the Amiga more times than squirrels bury acorns, and you know what, it keeps on growing back. Beware the naysayers, for they have their own agendas.

In reply to a quote which says Ralph Schimdt (MorphOS) says there Amiga Inc has a lot of illusions...BPlan won`t run AmigaOS4...it will run MorphOS, he answers: Amiga Inc has an agreement with bPlan to build an AmigaOne. AmigaOne computers run Amiga Inc software. Whatever else is run on it is nothing to do with us, unless it infringes our copyrights or IP.

Finally, he says: I have spent hours a day trying to bring all the Amiga developers together but it seems there is just too much hatred. In the end there can only be one AmigaOS, and one Amiga Inc company moving it forwards. Amiga has retaken control, is working directly with many contractors and looks forwards to all working with us to make a better Amiga in the future..

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Explanations from Fleecy, part 3 : Comment 10 of 63ANN.lu
Posted by Graham on 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Darrin):
No, AROS is as it says - the Amiga Replacement OS.
It is not targetted for x86 hardware, that just happens to be one of the architectures it runs on - it is well developed because lots of people have x86 hardware. It compiles for PPC and 68k as well.
AROS has had many man-years put into it - I don't know how many in total, but it is a lot more than Amiga can allocate to get an Amiga OS 4.0 in under a year, and that is assuming that they started over 6 months ago. Thus either Amige OS 4.0 will be a travesty of an OS, or they will use existing software to accellerate development.
OS3.9 has AROS code in it, IIRC. I don't know what code exactly, but it has it.
I hope that OS4 has a better version of the Toolbar/Iconbar/Taskbar widget thingy though - one a little more flexible - howabout small toolbar programs like CD players, clock, etc than can also be added, like panel applets in Gnome/KDE on Unix systems?
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