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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Why keep AmigaOS alive? Well, think of this:
Look at all the other OS'es, Windows, Linux and various hobby OS'es we learn about through OSNews.
AmigaOS has features which none of these have implemented properly yet. I think it would be a terrible waste just to drop it and forget it. It works both as a piece of history in what could be done on a 7 MHz 68000 with 512 kB RAM almost 20 years ago and serves as a primer for what still is to come, and as an inspirational source for how to solve various common problems, that you and I struggle with on a daily basis in other OS'es. Very few other OS'es can do that.
If you want a simple demonstration of AmigaDOS1.3 on a 7 MHz Amiga 2000 with 3 MB RAM and a 40 MB harddisk, take a look at this video from June 27th 1989:
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=computerchr...
The demonstrations starts at 11 minutes, 50 seconds into the video.
Now imagine how fast it would be, and how productive you would be, if you had such an OS, upgraded with modern features, modern applications on a 1 GHz G4 PPC machine with just 256 MB RAM.