@vidarh

AmigaOS needs only to be stable and secure (memory protection would be nice but should be possible) and must have a good Linux emulation (MSwindows emulation would be nice too) - that's nearly all for starters. Well, a native office environment (firefox, mail, openoffice, ...) would be nice too.

The performance of the X1000 and the PWRficient PA6T should suffice for most applications in office, industry, military and so on - even many cool games are possible (you don't really need zillions of triangles and every bit of dust calculated and individually animated).

The price of the X1000 may be high - let it be 2000 ¤ - but some hardcore gamers, hifi-freaks, etc. pay more (though not for the X1000). In mass production the X1000 can be as cheap as any PC.

The advantage of AmigaOS is that it's much smaller than MSwindows and therefore (potential) faster, less power consumptive, less bug-infested, more usable for small devices and real-time computing.

I see the chance for AmigaOS to kill MSwindows - one (the EU) must only want.

@vidarh

perhaps I see something the wrong way but...

I can remember when MS-DOS was regarded as professional, not because of its fantastic features (the famous prompt and green screen :) ), but because of the available software. And that also was the reason (in my view) of the failure of Beos and OS/2 (not the hardware). So I think even if there would be Memory Protection and support of SMP, there would still be no new software. Why should any company write new games and applications for a few hundred users? The Natami (at least) has the advantage that there are compilers available that you can start with and you can take the old source code and improve it. So it would be more important to show a path that has (at least) the potential for growth of the user base. A perspective for the future.

I say Software decides, not a few features of the OS

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