The product that we are going to ship is going to be much better than OSX from Apple, so OS 5 is not an accurate name or description of the product offering

Can't they give more details?

What is it about? Is it a standalone OS?

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Nope..

Either because;

- They have NDA's
- Are afraid of the competition (ie MS and Apple)
- There is no OS5
- any of the above.

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It's taken many years for AROS team working outside their jobs etc to get AROS almost as a useable OS. What timescale for Amiga inc to finish the product?

Last edited by Al4 on 12-Jun-2009 at 03:13 PM.

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What timescale for Amiga inc to finish the product?

Please read the detailed history of AInc somewhere first and you would be able to answer your own question.

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It's taken many years for AROS team working outside their jobs etc to get AROS almost as a useable OS. What timescale for Amiga inc to finish the product?

Depends on their connection speed to the AROS SVN.

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Maybe it will be quicker than OS X.

@Al4

It's all a nonsense. There is no such project, there are no people available or skilled enough to work on it.

Now, someone prove me wrong...

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What timescale for Amiga inc to finish the product?

My keyboard lacks an infinity symbol, otherwise I'd have typed out their schedule for you.

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@Al4
As Amiga Inc has missed ALL of their own self-imposed public deadlines (*) I don't think anyone knows, including Amiga Inc.

(* = and then blamed that on the court case, despite (a) knowing about the court case BEFORE they announced the deadlines, and (b) the court case has not stopped Hyperion releasing OS4 for Sam440. Make of that what you will. Most people here have concluded that Amiga Inc, or at least Bill McEwan, is full of nothing more than hot air.)

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Amiga branded PC computer whit Windows7 running on it? Whit the DE player on top?

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Hey all,

I, like many, have given up on ANYTHING Amiga Inc. has to say or do with Amiga. Besides the fact that they, as ChrisH mentioned, miss all their deadlines, they also seem to have no business sense what-so-ever. Here's a list of things you DON'T do to win over past/current/future customers;

1-Make false claims
2-Insult your users intelligence
3-Have no products to sell
4-Get constant bad public press
5-Lack any goals or plans for the future

Just a few things, but I'm sure others could add more. Point is - to ME, Hyperion and Acube are the new Amiga and have been doing a fairly good job at it so far. Thanks.

Ed

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Why don't the AROS team become AROS Inc? Introduce some competition.

Last edited by Al4 on 12-Jun-2009 at 05:13 PM.

7) What kind of hardware will OS5 be designed for?

OS5 scales to its host hardware, so anything from mobile phones through stbs, consoles up to servers. Initially covering software hosts Windows-D, Windows Mobile, Linux-D, Linux-E and Symbian for x86 and ARM, and possibly any high profile hardware host.

So it will work within WIndows etc, and possibly without it as well.

AROS for ARM, when that "gets done", will be able to compete on phones, PDAs etc with this potential OS thingy.

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Last edited by Al4 on 12-Jun-2009 at 05:27 PM.

@edponpon

unless you have learned from history (..ehm) and do something similar to a company back in the last century. They produced inconspicuous stuff, e.g. that would be like stupid phone games in the present, but develop a much better thing behind the scenes!!!

@Al4

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Al4 wrote: 7) What kind of hardware will OS5 be designed for? OS5 scales to its host hardware, so anything from mobile phones through stbs, consoles up to servers. Initially covering software hosts Windows-D, Windows Mobile, Linux-D, Linux-E and Symbian for x86 and ARM, and possibly any high profile hardware host. So it will work within WIndows etc, and possibly without it as well.

Its mid-way through 2009 now. Where is this mythical OS Al4? Will you be posting this same kind of thing next year, and the year after?

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OS5 scales to its host hardware, so anything from mobile phones through stbs, consoles up to servers. Initially covering software hosts Windows-D, Windows Mobile, Linux-D, Linux-E and Symbian for x86 and ARM, and possibly any high profile hardware host.

a) Your informations comes from where? Have you seen demo? Recived SDK? Read detailed review on Ars Technica?

b) answer me this: how do you handle one application across so broad set of platforms? I'm not talking running it. What about UI? How application, lets call it "Standard RSS Reader" will scale its UI from Aero to Linux Desktop (GTK, QT), to portable device with touch screen and ending at embedded Linux without any interface?

If you're going to rewrite applications to fit host better why not use Python, Java or Mono/.NET?

Everything that Amiga Inc said before about AA/DE/OS5 is pipe dream. As a developer I see no reason to invest my time with some half-assed SDL knockout.

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no one knows when it will get done. One year, five years?