Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Aug 2007 20:02 UTC, submitted by Raffaele
In a discussion on Amiga forum site The Amigans, the Friedens twin brothers (developers of AmigaOS 4.0 exec kernel) revealed that the complete Amiga OS architecture will move ahead to a new design. The new AmigaOS (let's call it AmigaOS 4+1) will include some sort of virtual environment in which old (AmigaOS 4.0) applications will run as separate tasks, in their own address space. MorphOS, an Amiga-like operating system, employs a similar method to allow for compatibility with older Amiga 3.x applications. AmigaWorld of course also discusses the matter.
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Well, at least Vista is here now and running. It's probably not the best release of Windows, but it works for most users.
More importantly, it's Windows running on alive hardware that you can buy everywhere. It's what 95% of the world is using (or so, don't quote me).
Amiga, for all it's glory and fame, is now a very small niche market of strong FANS that can't forget about it. And all the work being done to keep it alive is .... well, like Duke Nukem, it's the never ending project/OS, on hard to find and costly hardware.
Don't get me wrong, Amiga was ahead of it's time, a very good computer that could do stuff IBM/Apple could only dream about. But we are in 2007 now.