[News] MorphOS, the Pegasos, and other PPC Operating Systems and Platforms | ANN.lu |
Posted on 22-Oct-2002 07:30 GMT by Jedi | 137 comments View flat View list |
By Thendic-France on MorphOS-News.de :
"In complete cooperation with Mai Logic, we have loaded the bplan OpenFirmware on both the Teron CX and PX. MorphOS runs well on both boards. The Pegasos was developed as a open hardware platform right from the beginning; it uses a BIOS to simplify a port of any operating system to the platform. This OpenFirmware is a well known standard (IEEE1275) and is used worldwide by companies like SUN Microsystems, Apple, Cisco, IBM, Motorola and others. We will support any OS vendor willing to port their software to our platform and will allow them to use our retail channels to sell their products..."
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Posted by Hagge on 23-Oct-2002 05:44 GMT | In reply to Comment 25 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): Sure mr Ben, I Don't doubt that AmigaOS4.0 will be the best AmigaOS we have seen. But it's supposed to be, the problem as I see it is that even Gateway was a little bit to late, and that stuff delayed us like what? 2 years? And then Amino got Amiga and it soon has taken them 3 more years, see my point?
Even if AmigaOS4.0 is much better than the old ones it must be quite outdated, not many companies support Amiga longer, there are almost no demoscene left, all the fun is gone =/. The big problem is a hardware one thought, because AmigaOS is probably still as efficent, comfortable and easy to use as it has always been, but I doubt many people will pay as much money as a complete new x86 would cost for a "bad" motherboard with an old cpu. The AmigaONE should have a price of something like $250, that would be most correct and then some outsiders maybe would buy it to.
The best thing as I see it would of course have been AmigaOS gone open-source a long time ago because then the Amiga community would have updated it and make sure it would have stayed as the best OS out there. It could have been under some kind of license which said that you are not allowed to base any other commercial products no the source code or something like that to prevent someone from stealing the OS. Not that I see that coming anyway since it can't be that much better code than anything else out there.
I like AmigaOS, I want AmigaOS, but I can live without it to... So if it's not a good product and if AmigaONE is way to expensive I'll do without it. Going PPC was a good choice since it's probably very hard to compete against windows on x86, but now I don't see how Amiga could compete with anyone at all so for the moment x86 looks like the better alternative since it would have given the Amiga users cheap hardware.
all of this is of course my personal thoughts... |
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