"AROS has gained lots of bugfixes and improvements in the lastest weeks. For istance, Neil Cafferkey has corrected some important bugs is his beloved AROS Installer; Nic Andrews has worked on his RTL8139 network driver; and Robert Norris has fixed file notifications, which previously broke preferences, just to name three."
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Member since:2007-11-22
I should have worded that sentence differently 
. What I meant was that the x86 platform doesn't provide the right environment in which a new or improved AmigaOS could thrive.
It's not so much that I want underpowered and overpriced hardware, but more to do with the experience that I mentioned in my previous post. An experience that the x86 platform doesn't provide.
I think Amiga users have high expectations of what new Amiga hardware would be (or maybe that's just me) and x86 just doesn't stand up to those expectations.
Edited 2007-11-22 07:57
Member since:2005-06-29
It's not so much that I want underpowered and overpriced hardware, but more to do with the experience that I mentioned in my previous post.
The plug and play bit? Err,that's hardly a hardware feature - it's a software issue. Plug and play's success depends solely on the availability of drivers; if the operating system does not have the drivers installed before you insert your hardware, plug and play doesn't work.
In other words, Windows, Linux, and Max OS X probably have plug and play support a million times that of Amiga, for the simple fact that each of these (esp. Linux) have much wider default hardware support.
All the things that you mention in your post can easily be achieved with standard, off-the-shelf components - just look at the Intel Macs.
An experience that the x86 platform doesn't provide.
I've been hearing this stuff for ages now, yet nobody ever gave me a compelling reason why this obsession with clearly inferior hardware should hold the Amiga OS hostage.
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2005-06-29
I'm not saying that any new or improved AmigaOS should run on the original hardware, but x86 just doesn't do it for us Amiga users.
So you'd rather have an underpowered and overpriced (and generally unavailable) processor and chipset, rather than something that is available now, for dirt cheap, and performs a lot better?
No wonder the Amiga is pretty much dead.