On the answer of Q&A, Mr McEwen mention AmigaOS 6.0.
Is this a realistic project with current Amiga Inc. financial situation?
What is the specification of this OS?
Will Hyperion develop this new OS?
Will this OS run on ONLY on proprietary hardware?

Or is this statement similar to Petro T. statement about Motorla 68080 CPU?

@asian

Moved to a better section.

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You can speculate about OS5.

OS4 according to forum comments about the jpeg of the apparent "leaked" contract it said OS4 should be delivered to Amiga by end of March 2002.

Thats when OS4 was going to be nothing more than a ppc kernel running emulated 68K 3.9 (PPC Amithlon). The hardware changed due to escena and alan found mai logic. That already blew the original date out of the water.

Amiga Inc has plans apparently for this digital content universe. If OS4 is an important first step in that drection and if Amiga Incs think OS4 is 4 years late going by the contract date, then Amiga Inc can't sit around waiting, no vc would invest without a plan b.

OS4 was mature enough 2 years ago to start working on network storage, delivery content, management, voip, etc systems. Maybe that all OS5 is so far, a set off additional OS4 components.

The prerelease, OS5 work being started, apparant buy back of OS4 all seem to have happened around the same time... coincidence ?

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@asian

The OS4 discussion hasn't been complete yet. Seems silly to speculate about 6. At the normal Amiga rate, even Cell will be a slow discontinued CPU by the time an imagined beta 6 appears.

Plaz

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Cell will be a slow discontinued CPU by the time an imagined beta 6 appears.

We'll have all transcended to a different state of being by the time OS6 appears.

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We'll have all transcended to a different state of being by the time OS6 appears.

@asian

Like the comments on the AmigaInc forum, I think you may be mistaken and they ment to say OS5. It is way to early to bring out OS6 when OS4 isn't even full released.

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BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHH!!!!

I say to threads like this!!!!

Only this and this will happen!
Nothing constructive....

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@asian
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asian wrote: On the answer of Q&A, Mr McEwen mention AmigaOS 6.0. Is this a realistic project with current Amiga Inc. financial situation? What is the specification of this OS? Will Hyperion develop this new OS? Will this OS run on ONLY on proprietary hardware? Or is this statement similar to Petro T. statement about Motorla 68080 CPU?

All I can say is that:
- We have no idea what the current financial situation is of Amiga Inc.
- Amiga OS5 development started in-house at Amiga Inc. some time in 2004, so it's been in development for approximately 1-2 years
- Amiga OS5 is supposed to run on more than just PowerPC CPUs, however, there's no indication if proprietary hardware will be necessary or not
- Amiga Inc. are curently the only ones who know what OS6 will be and they haven't released any details AFAIK

In summary, we'll have to wait and see. We don't even have an official release of OS4 yet, even though OS5 has been in development in parallel.

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@asian

How much did he say about OS6? Only that something with that number might someday exist. He said nothing about what it is, its features, etc. He didn't really say much more useful stuff about OS5 either. We can presume they have ideas for something called OS5 and something called OS6, but I wouldn't assume anything beyond that.

I don't think there are answers to your questions.

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billt wrote: @asian How much did he say about OS6? Only that something with that number might someday exist. He said nothing about what it is, its features, etc. He didn't really say much more useful stuff about OS5 either. We can presume they have ideas for something called OS5 and something called OS6, but I wouldn't assume anything beyond that. I don't think there are answers to your questions.

I agree with you, we saw screenshosts about AmigaOS4.0, and some guys use it, but AmigaOS5.0...60.0...or X.Y are just number, we know just that 6.0 its greather than 5.0...I hope

I suggest that when Hyperion is ready to release OS4, they release it as OS6 under the argument "because 4 and 5 were taking too long!"

@Wain

Cute. Unfortunately not an option under their contract.

@asian

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asian wrote: On the answer of Q&A, Mr McEwen mention AmigaOS 6.0. Is this a realistic project with current Amiga Inc. financial situation?

Of course it's realistic. Just think of how many $500,000.00 grossing companies are standing in line wanting to do business with Amiga inc.

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Didnt Hyperion say that there was a plan B running in paralell in case there were not to be any hardware for OS4? Im 95% sure I read that somewhere sometime. Anyone knows where?
Who knows, maybe OS5 is the plan B!

Latest McEwen statement: OS 5.0 is NOT based on Intent/Tao Group product.

Apple had abandoned PowerPC, SGI had abandoned MIPS and Sun begin to the shift away from SPARC to x86.

If this new OS is not based on Intent, what about application portability on different platforms? Do they plan to use Transitive, java, mono, llvm or emulation?
Will the application vendors optimize their OS 5.0 applications for PowerPC or x86 CPU?

Is the same portability tools exist on OS 6.0?
Will the future OS 6.0 compatible with current AmigaOne, Samantha, Powervixxen etc?
Do Amiga Inc plan to force the users to abandon their PowerPC hardware, similar to 68K?
Thank you.