[News] The "I Am Amiga" promotion has ended! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 26-Jul-2002 10:41 GMT by et | 134 comments View flat View list |
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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Posted by Hagge on 27-Jul-2002 13:02 GMT | In reply to Comment 89 (Comedian): >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.
well, i like the os to. But lets say 5.000 buy the AmigaONE quite many of them will end up using Linux. Anyway, sure, there are 5.000users. Will that get any larger companies intrested? Will there be more apps made? Will Amiga Inc get any money back so they can develop the os? No, probably not.
Rewritting AmigaOS from scratch with the functions you think should be inside a moden os would probably have been better. Or even better, if AmigaOS had gone open-source 1994 things would really be cute now. AmigaOS would probably have been ported to x86 in say 2years and since that 6years hade gone and we would probably have a much more updated system. To bad it didn't happened.
And yes, I do understand there is a market for a nice, easy to use, lightweight os, but without a development path into the future it probably doesn't matter how great your product is.
We could look at BeOS, it failed, but it was probably a good thing because OpenBeOS could be something in the future..
>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.
sure
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.
The could have used G4s on the motherboards without any problems, at least i think so. The problem is probably that AmigaOS doesn't use AltiVec yet and that G4s are expensive and apple gets all of them.
But as i said i still don't think there will be much development in AmigaOS if there are just 5.000 users.
>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. ;-)
I don't own a mac.
My only computers are:
A500+
A1200, 030@50MHz, 8MB fast, 1.7GB hd
My mothers x86(p2@350MHz, 192MB ram, 6.4GB hd) running OpenBSD
two Sun Ultra30(usII@248MHz/1MB cache, 384MB ram, 4GB scsidrive, 21" monitor) of which one runs Debian Linux.
And ann is intresting for me because i still like amiga as i said, but i wouldn't buy expensive stuff without a future... maybe if i had more money. |
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