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Posted by Frodon on 19-Mar-2002 05:37 GMT | Hello,
Ok, let's clear up the situation.
Amiga Anywhere is a products for the consumer electronic market (PDAs, Phones..etc). And Amiga Anywhere run hosted by an other OS actually to be able to target the most people as possible.
But sadly, Microsoft is a part of this market too with his WindowsCE (or PocketPC). As Amiga Anywhere is a layer that provide a multimedia platform independant environment,it's perfectly logical that it runs on all the available hardwares on this market, and so as an hosted environment, on all available OSes on this market, including WindowsCE.
You may say: "But why Microsoft? Why not Palm?"
First: Amiga Anywhere don't run only on M$ WindowsCE, it runs also on Linux on the Zaurus actually and surely all the others future Linux PDAs.
Second: Amiga Anywhere will surely run on Palm in the future but i think actually the Palm devices with their DragonBall CPUs at max 33Mhz are not fast enough for that. So i think Amiga Inc wait for PalmOS 5 and StrongARM/XScale based Palm PDAs before making Amiga Anywhere for Palm available.
So to conclude, it's logical that Amiga Anywhere run on ALL the OSes available in the consumer electronic market which include WindowsCE, PalmOS and Linux (Epoc seems to be "dead"...).
For us the Amiga fans that don't mind of this market, just ignore it! For us Amiga Inc and their partners (Hyperion, Eyetech...etc) are preparing the AmigaOnePoint5 and the AmigaOS 4.0 (And after 4.2? 4.5...5.x which will normally include the AmigaDE (or Amiga Anywhere)).
So let Amiga Inc do what they have to do in the consumer electronics market that don't concern most of you, and so if you are not concerned by this market (You don't care at all about PDAs and future "multimedia" phones), just focus on AmigaOnePoint5 and AmigaOS 4.x/5.x.
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