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[News] News from the Amiga2k banquetANN.lu
Posted on 02-Apr-2000 15:01 GMT by Christian Kemp54 comments
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Here's a copy&paste from Czech Amiga News. Roger Wyatt is quoted as saying Bill McEwean's after dinner talk and demonstration was stunning in its sweep, complexity, and scope. Here are a few highlights:
  • Newtek has placed its source code for the Toaster and Flyer into Open Source status. See www.toaster.amiga.org for details.
  • Greenboy of the Phoenix Group joined Amiga's Gary Peake on stage to shake hands and announce that there was no split in the Amiga community. Phoenix and Amiga are working together.
  • Sun is a strategic partner of Amiga.
  • Bill McEwen: "Our success will be the embrase of Java." Expect to see many Java apps for Amiga.
  • Red Hat is another strategic partner. So is Corel. Amiga will be the common consumer application layer for 26 different versions of Linux.
  • The new Amiga developer environment will run on top of a Red Hat Linux base and foundation.
  • Amiga will be the common consumer interface for Corel Linux apps.
  • Thus Amiga will provide Java and Linux with a common interface. Amiga will be extensibile running on cell phones to servers.
  • 117 current Amiga titles are being ported to the Tao based New Amiga OS.
  • Espial is providing an 800k java web browser for New Amiga.
  • There will be a new version of Scala for the new OS.
  • Animators from Disney provided the conceptual designs for the look of the new hardware reference designs. They are beautiful. They will be going up soon on the Amiga website. Disney used over 500 Amigas to produce computer animation for their films.
  • Amiga is aligned with an array of consumer electronic firms including Sony, JVC, and others.
  • There will be an upcoming announcement regarding Amiga participation in a global ISP alliance.
  • In the weeks to come Tech Head Stories will provide both in-depth analysis of the Amiga announcements in streaming video, text, and graphic formats. Stay tuned.
I didn't manage to get a confirmation for all this. Only Czech Amiga News has original coverage, amiga-news.de copied it from there. Moo Bunny seems to be down and amiga.org has nothing on this either. A quick search on comp.sys.amiga.misc also yielded no results.
News from the Amiga2k banquet : Comment 51 of 54ANN.lu
Posted by Metamiwoo on 02-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
I totaly agree.
AmigaOS was very tied with its hardware : that made it so good.
But it's not possible anymore.
What is Amiga now ? Mainly, it's its OS and its community.
And I hope we will have both with TAO.
"Anonymous" said that Amiga.Inc does not want to see different opinions in the community. On one side, it's normal : they want a strong communauty, not a divised one. But, on another side, I never hear Fleecy saying "you have to think this"... he has always said : "we will do it, I hope you will follow us..." that's all.
News from the Amiga2k banquet : Comment 52 of 54ANN.lu
Posted by Victor on 02-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 42 (Anonymous):
Just see comment #14. So, I think the reason of Gateway's cancellation of the NG and dropping Amiga was some pressure from a certain place... Quite obvious, isn't it?
News from the Amiga2k banquet : Comment 53 of 54ANN.lu
Posted by iank on 02-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 52 (Victor):
Reply to 52:
I think you overestimate the influence MS has these days with IHVs. The DOJ case has made them very fogiving as you would expect. My company can order Linux boxes if I want from them and Dell, Gateway and a few others.
That said, I see nothing I like in this new Amiga news. Linux is nothing but warmed over hard to use Unix. If you get it from Corel or RedHat they make it easy to install but it's still voodoo to your home user once you hit the command shell. Put makeup on a dog and it's still a dog (kinda like Windows on DOS).
News from the Amiga2k banquet : Comment 54 of 54ANN.lu
Posted by Brad Jacobsen on 03-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 53 (iank):
Quote"
That said, I see nothing I like in this new Amiga news. Linux is nothing but warmed over hard
to use Unix. If you get it from Corel or RedHat they make it easy to install but it's still voodoo
to your home user once you hit the command shell. Put makeup on a dog and it's still a dog
(kinda like Windows on DOS).
End quote"
DEVELOPER BOX!! THINK DEVELOPER BOX!!! Sorry 'bout the Caps but it seems you still think that the
Announced developer box IS the new Amiga and/or OS. It's not. It's just one example of what Elate
can run on. Most normal Joe-home users won't even consider buying a developer box so leave the
"voodoo" to the Geeks, who will use it to develop software that can run natively on your PPC/MIPs/UberChip2000,
whatever.
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