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MrbLOB9000
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« on: March 18, 2004, 03:37:17 AM »
Well, I heard no news about it untill on a lark I decided to go to Amiga's web page.  And stumbled on the news.  I guess TheRegister reported it and I missed it.  They say they sold it to focus on "mobile computing".  Well, they weren't even making the OS anymore, they farmed it out, and it took them 3 years to get the new version out, so it doesn't look like they were focusing on AmigaOS at all anyway.

Anyway, looks like Amiga is focusing on "Mobile Computing".  But what are they doing?  All I have seen is a few games that run on Microsoft PocketPC in an emulator, that don't seem to be available anymore.  The last thing on ther news page for the section that seems to be about the mobile stuff was updated in Aug. 2003.  So what the heck are they doing?!

The only time anyone is going to care is if AmigaOS is ported to x86 but we saw how well that worked fo Be and BeOS now didn't we.

If AmigaOS was ported to x86 would you give it a shot?  (assuming they had an emulator that worked for running old Amiga PPC based programs.)
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« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2004, 03:37:17 AM »
Amiga sells the AmigaOS to KMOS.... And no one cares....
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« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2004, 10:17:20 AM »
Well, I don't think anyone barked over this because the company who will take over the AmigaOS is going to do just as good, if not a better job than the Amiga people would.  Thing is, this simply means that Amiga can now concentrate on the core of their systems.  Hardware.  They leave the OS development to someone else.  That'll free up people, money, and resources, which is a good thing.  

Plus I'm sure that Amiga corp locked this other company into some silly licencing thing that still gives Amiga say in what happens to the OS.  They'd be silly not to.  
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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2004, 11:39:27 PM »
I think you aren't seeing it right, they aren't doing hardware either.  They sold everything about the AmigaOS to the other company and are "focusing on Mobile Computing".  They haven't actually done inhouse dev on the OS for quite a while.
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« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2004, 02:20:21 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2004, 02:24:08 PM »
Who can ever forget that Amiga bootscreen? All purple with a floppy disk floating into a drive....oh and that colourful tick
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« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2004, 04:28:38 PM »
Huh, I posted my message after MTP, and its gone up 3 space mysteriously?
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« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2004, 12:02:42 AM »
I am proof of your original statement. I do not care about the AmigaOS. Never did, never will. If you port it to x86 I will continue to ignore it. Its time (if there ever was a time for it) is past.
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« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2004, 01:05:47 AM »
Actually, AmigaOS was ahead of its time.  Still is to a degree.  The greatest fear out there is that its time will come and nobody will care and it will pass and the OS will die once and for all having never contributed much more to the PC world than as a hobbiest's toy.
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« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2004, 07:31:08 AM »
I was unaware that amiga even still existed, much did anything in computers anymore.
I owned a Comadore64 eons ago.
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