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| Posted on 23-Sep-2004 06:42 GMT by saku | 174 comments
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Why guess, listen to rumours,
compare months old public releases and continue speculating online? Why not
participate in a friendly duel and come see the state of the art for
yourself! Finnish Amiga Users Group is pleased to demonstrate the best of
the both worlds at its annual meeting this coming Saturday: AmigaOne
running a new AmigaOS 4.0 beta and Pegasos II running MorphOS 1.5 beta. The time
and place to be: 14 o'clock, Saturday 25.09.2004, Opetusravintola Eetvartin
Kellarikabinetti, Sumeliuksenkatu 16, Tampere, Finland.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Best of Both Worlds: New OS4 beta and MOS 1.5 beta in Finland
TAMPERE, FINLAND - September 23st, 2004 - Why guess, listen to rumours,
compare months old public releases and continue speculating online? Why not
participate in a friendly duel and come see the state of the art for
yourself! Finnish Amiga Users Group is pleased to demonstrate the best of
the both worlds at its annual meeting this coming Saturday: AmigaOne
running a new AmigaOS 4.0 beta and Pegasos II running MorphOS 1.5 beta.
Encouraged by the recent technological advances within the extended Amiga
community, the Finnish Amiga Users Group is once again excited to showcase
the latest progress. Colour blind since its inception, the Finnish Amiga
Users Group welcomes everyone - and attendance is free as usual. The time
and place to be: 14 o'clock, Saturday 25.09.2004, Opetusravintola Eetvartin
Kellarikabinetti, Sumeliuksenkatu 16, Tampere, Finland.
Also attending is Finnish Amiga retailer Gentle Eye Ky. Welcome!
About Finnish Amiga Users Group
Finnish Amiga Users Group (officially Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a
registered, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Finnish Amiga
computer users by preserving and advancing the Amiga hobby and knowledge
of the Amiga computing platform in Finland. The group aims to reach its
goals through volunteer efforts such as organizing events and publishing
an e-zine called Saku. For more information, see http://saku.amigafin.org.
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| Posted by takemehomegrandma on 24-Sep-2004 06:31 GMT | In reply to Comment 18 (Kjetil):
> It’s not like you are can compare them equally yet
Of course you can! They are both work in progress, and comparing "the latest betas" of the two is a good way to see the state they are in at this particular point. A very interesting comparison IMHO.
> OS40 continues to be unfinished work
MorphOS is also a work in progress you know, even though the latest public release doesn't lack as many important components as the latest public release of the OS4 did (the pre-release).
> there are several components not present in the present beta if I’m not
> mistaken
I would at least expect the "OS4 beta" to ship with all necessary drivers for peripheral devices, I would expect lots of things to have migrated to PPC especially the P96 and all the other things that made the "pre-release" so unbearably slow, I would expect improvements in the 68k emulator, I would expect improvements in the TCP/IP stack and network drivers (I have not been able to get it working satisfactory at all), and last but not least, I would expect wheel-mouse support (a small thing to ask for perhaps, but a real annoyance to live without). Those are all very basic things that really should have been in the pre-release from the beginning.
It would be really nice if they also managed to ship it with PowerUP and WarpUP support, as well as the JIT emulator, and if they manage to get those things so seamlessly and transparantly integrated into the OS as they are in MorphOS. However, I believe that the chance of that happening at *this point* is close to zero.
> You can’t really compare them on software titles ether as there MorphOS has
> bin around longer then AmigaOS
Both OS's are currently in development, and *of course* you can compare the current state in which they both are right now. And that is interesting!
> I think you need to wait until AmigaOS4.0 is finished to compare it whit any
> thing else.
And when is an OS finished? When development stops? Isn't that more equal to "death" than "finished"? IMHO, an OS that is still being actively developed is never really "finished", so what you may compare is different public releases and, as in this case, current betas, which should reflect the current state of the OS's pretty well ... |
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