"Back in the old days of the original AmigaOS, the system used to allocate areas of unused memory to new tasks was pretty simple. The old method served its purpose well enough at the time, but with the increased demands of modern computing - and of course the desire to bring this new version of the operating system to the cutting edge - AmigaOS4.0
has introduced a better way of doing things."
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The only problem is the OS would end up on Bit torrent nobody would buy it, everyone would say it should be opensourced and the developers would go bust.
This is precisely why AmigaOS won't be and shouldn't be ported to x86.
The current Amiga market should remain closed and with controlled hardware, otherwise it'd be impossible to get any foothold in any kind of market using AmigaOS.
It's so tempting to say that you could just port it to x86 and be done with it, but there are way too many competitors on x86.
BeOS died (or stagnated seriously) that way.
Generic PPC hardware availability is a problem, but it's a much smaller problem than having an OS that has had a lot of money poured in it over the past 5 years, vaporize due to piracy or simply becomes a curiosity and gets a "nice toy" effect and would be forgotten a year after it was ported.
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There is nothing Amigalike in the new PPC based systems.
They use fairly generic and standard parts.
They also make Apple computers look cheap and over powered.
Switching to X86 would make tons of sense.
All the people who already own a PC could run the OS then. The only problem is the OS would end up on Bit torrent nobody would buy it, everyone would say it should be opensourced and the developers would go bust.