| [News] EyeTech update AmigaOne Timeline | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 27-Jun-2001 13:36 GMT by Christian Kemp | 29 comments
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EyeTech have updated the AmigaOne Timeline. Several items are already "complete", with AmigaOne-1200 boards and OS4.0 available to dealers scheduled for 1st week October.
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| EyeTech update AmigaOne Timeline : Comment 25 of 29 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Dave on 27-Jun-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 24 (Mikey C):
Mikey
Thanks for your response. I think we are both on the same page now.
I understand your point about irrational posting, I lash out against that myself. I must lead a sheltered life since ignoring comp.sys.amiga.misc ( nearly three years and counting ! ) because I havent seen any posts that make me think there is a hidden agenda. There are a few total idiots out there but I think they are too clueless to have an agenda ;-)
What I will say is that the Amiga userbase is now more robust than it ever was. There was a point where certain Amiga magazines - at least in the UK - were afraid of criticising vendors, software developers or anyone frankly because they were either drummed out of the market or the vendor got indignant and upped and left. Hopefully you know the incidents I am alluding to.
Plus, in the bad old days you couldnt say anything negative about the Amiga or its vendors ( apart from in comp.sys.amiga.misc where bashing is done as a hobby ) without being flamed by irrational defenders of the MCIBTYC and "Believe in Collas/Viscorp/Amiga/Gateway" brigades. There was also some very outrageous reaction to those Amiga based development/production shops that branched out into PC ware to cross subsidise their Amiga investments until they turned around. Now it is accepted, users are starting to lose their self centered attitude - the religious blindness perhaps - and starting to understand and appreciate real business decisions.
The whole period of 1994 to 1999 was infected with this kind of sickness and rot. :-(
Believe it or not, the Amiga marketplace to outside viewers ( of the enlightened sort ( e.g. those that dont lamer on Slashdot/c.s.a.m ;-) ) ) is starting to shape up and could, given the right TLC grow into a significant market again.
Once in a while you will see people post "Amiga is dead, join platform [x] its the only way if it isnt development methodology [y] then its a crime against humanity". These sad misguided souls may be whom you are alluding to, but I would say to you that it is a compliment that they continue to do so.
Example data for above:
[x]{ Windows, Linux, BSD }
[y]{ Open Source, GPL, CamelWare ( ok I made that last up ) }
There are valuable skills in the Amiga community, not least the skill to select an operating system that is elegant, fast and fun to use.
Id like you to send or post references ( I can understand if you want to send private email on this - some will just get annoyed if you refer to their posts ) so I can get some context on what you are talking about as per agenda.
I, for one am looking forward to the release of AmigaOne. I now own three copies of the SDK and am porting some serious applications. I am also porting big end open source applications onto OS3.5 ( I havent yet got around to OS3.9 ) such as StarOffice, Mozilla and more.
I am also responsible for quite a lot of anonymous posts that are supportive of Amiga, Eyetech, Hyperion and others.
But, I will not talk about release dates or promise anything. Why? I do it for my own use and if I finish it and think it would be usable to others then I will fold changes back into the main distributions. This used to be the ethos behind Shareware back in the good old days.
I digress.
Let them say what they like Mikey, the market is robust enough to take it now and the future looks bright, regardless of how long we have to wait.
Dave.
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