| [News] The "I Am Amiga" promotion has ended! | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 26-Jul-2002 10:41 GMT by et | 134 comments
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And the total is.. 940. Not bad.
"Countdown to the draw: The promotion has ended. Coupon count may still rise as third party dealers submit their sales. Winners will be announced soon."
.. So, we could well make the 1000 mark, well done people, I hope you all order AmigaOnes as soon as they are available :)
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| The "I Am Amiga" promotion has ended! : Comment 89 of 134 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Comedian on 27-Jul-2002 11:38 GMT | In reply to Comment 86 (Hagge):
> But if a new Amiga mean low-end hardware at a regular-end price with the
> same os as the amigas had 10 years ago i don't really see why it's nice
> or anything.
You have a point. But for some crazy reason I like that 10 year old OS and it seems that there's another 960+ users that still do. Like it or not, Amiga Inc own the rights to Amiga. I know they don't code the OS or manufacture the boards, but in this day and age I don't expect them to. Do you think that Windows is coded only by MS? I know a few companies in India that do heaps of contract coding for portions of Windows. Or do you belive that companies like HP/Dell/IBM/Compaq don't OEM a lot of their products & drivers from other companies? The fact that Amiga Inc payed money for the rights and are trying to revive the platform is ok with me. If it happens it happens. If it doesn't, too bad.
> At 1992 the AmigaOS still owned, at 1985 it was even better
> compared to the rest...
> But the same os will not be what ppl think is the best one 2002.
But it doesn't have to be the best OS in 2002. In the long run it might turn out to be a popular OS for home users. Who knows what the future holds.
It takes time to go through heaps of source code to port the AmigaOS to a new hardware architecture like the PPC. Let's assume it will take you 12 or 24 months to do. You start off with hardware that's available at the time. Two years down the track you have a stable OS but the G3 CPU and motherboard used is outdated. How easy is it then to get the OS to run on a newer G4 or future G5 board? Assuming of course there's a united community willing to support you, the user base and OS will improve.
>...some not so impressive stuff about MacOS...>
> So, I always read all news items on ann.lu, amiga is still
> interesting for me, but i wouldn't buy the hardware longer.
That's fine. Thanks for the Apple MacOS promo. However, I still can't figure out why the Amiga is still interesting for you. I can only assume you like to shit stir the ann.lu forums when you're bored with you iMac. ;-) |
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