| From: | Brian Coombs |
| Date: | 19 Mar 2001 at 17:02:55 |
| Subject: | Re: AA article on A1?(Was Pirate Sites (Was T - 11 Days.)) |
>> And, should the DE prove to be half as useful, then two systems for
>> the price of one.
>
>^^ THIS is what I'm talking about. The AmigaOne is actually a hardware
>thing - great. But what about the stuff Amiga are focussed on, the soft
>side of it all? Who's seen it? Who knows what it does? NOBODY. I doubt
>even Amiga know what it's doing, since they seem to have contracted
>out every component to another company :P
>
>> Yes, I am excited about the AmigaOne, which will finally deliver the
>> first new Amiga Machine in a decade.
>
>What will it *do* though? WHAT will it DO?
>
.....
>
>What's so good about the AmigaDE then, over - for instance - QNX,
>or Linux, or FreeBSD? Why should I buy an AmigaONE Eyetech monster
>when I can get a bPlan motherboard? Why should I want to run AmigaDE
>on that motherboard, when I can run MorphOS on it? :O
These are exactly the sort of questions I want answered in an AA article about
the AmigaOne. What exactly will it do that will cause us, and all in Windoze
land, to sit up and take note? Seems everything I've read about it so far has
been very woolly or just a list of moderate PC specs... Maybe everything will
be clearer in 11 days?
Here's hoping it will be more than just another minor alternate OS!
Brian
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