Linked by Mike Bouma on Wed 9th Jun 2004 18:35 UTC
Core AmigaOS 4.0 developer Hans-Jörg Frieden has written a status report with regard to the current state of AmigaOS. Various advances have been made since the Developer Pre-release version of AOS4 was completed. Meanwhile AmigaWorld.net has launched a new File Depot portal dedicated to providing and hosting Amiga OS4 files and related resources.
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"If AmigaOS came on x86 Hardware you'd only be dual booting back to windows."
Not in my case. The fastest Amiga I have is an x86 Amithlon machine, and it doesn't have Windows on it, so there is no dual booting.
Win2k runs on a separate machine, and I find in practice that this often goes unused for days. The Amigas are simply less hassle to use.
I don't believe it makes any difference to the user what CPU is being used. It might turn out in a year or two that IBM can make better CPUs than Intel or AMD - or it might not.
It can be annoying that current graphics cards don't support some features required by the Amiga OS, but OTOH they have higher resolution and more colours than the old Amiga technology. Software emulation in the OS ought to be possible.
As for "why bother" - look at the thread on bloat in Linux which is running today. A good aim for the future would be to make Amiga OS better than BeOS, while keeping that Gig of RAM you have now clear for the data you are working on.
The OS should not be using up more than a quarter of the available RAM on a system.