| From: | Mike O'Hara |
| Date: | 5 Apr 2001 at 13:46:41 |
| Subject: | Re: And so it begins...... |
Hi Andy, on 04-Apr-01 22:08:31 you wrote:
>- Anyone can make AmigaOS hardware to the zirco spec, but only Eyetech (at
>the moment) can call it an AmigaOne.
I can't wait for the MeagerOne ;)
>- There has been a split in the community AmigaOS vs. MorphOS. Vapor,
>MorphOS, BPlan, and DCE, all sticking to MorphOS rather than OS4. This is
>sad, but there is so much bad blood in the community that it was bound to
>happen.
I don't think it's sad... look at it from their point of view.
MorphOS exists, it works, and the MorphOS team aren't changing their minds every
6 months WRT the future.
AOS4.0 on the otherhad, doesn't exist, doesn't work, and Amiga seem to change
direction every 6 months.
Now, if you were running a business... would you support the vapourware OS4.0,
or the real MorphOS?
>- A lot of the amiga market are very childish. Ralph Schmidt and David
>Gerber for example. Some of the comments I have seen are pure sour grapes,
>which is a shame becuse the two gentlemen above are extremly talented
>programmers, and I am a great fan of Voyager.
Maybe if Amiga actually release something, Vapor et al will change their minds,
as it is now. You can't really blame them for choosing to support that which
exists in preference of that which doesn't.
>- A lot of users are unrealistic, tightfisted ****s who won't pay for new
>hardware, even though what they own is VERY out of date.
I won't buy more CUSTOM hardware. The last thing the Amiga needs is to be tied
to more custom hardware. I'll wait for the hardware independant OS4.2 thanks all
the same.
>There are people out there who think that you should only ever buy one computer
>in your lifetime. Grow up guys.
I've not met any of them. :) But, there are people who don't think buying into
yet another minority platform is such a great idea... and with (the assumed)
50,000 sales of OS3.9 (some of them going to UAE users), thats a pretty big
minority. ;)
Carpe Diem,
Mike 'Navvie' O'Hara
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