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OS3.9 sold more than 20K units even though it was only a minor improvement over the previous version of AmigaOS. If OS4 was available with a steady supply of affordable new hardware from say 2004-2007, I'd be very surprised if it performed much worse.

Meeeeep !!!

Not even close, and not even if you counted the AmigaOS-XL sales into it.

3.5 did sell in that region, but remember that was long before AmigaOS was declared dead by TrademarkInc, long before the SW-market ran dry and suitable for HW people allready had.

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e first batch of uA1's were produced in October 2004 IIRC and sold out in a month or so. I think there were 2 more batches produced, each batch selling out in about a month.

Let's, for the sake of it, say there are 900 uA1 in existence (which is almost certainly way way high). Then that would be 300 per batch, selling out in 30 days, so 10 per day.

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If OS4 was available with a steady supply of affordable new hardware from say 2004-2007, I'd be very surprised if it performed much worse.

So even if this (hypothetical) rate of 10 per day, which wa surely helped by the ever-present feeling of "get it now, or it may be gone forever" --- even if that rate could have been maintained for all the time from the first prerelease to the present day, your estimate would still be high by a factor of 2.

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Anyone else notice this on Amiga's Site, or am I just late? Lol.



The AmigaOS has been characterized as “the best operating system ever developed”.

The "Amiga Operating System" originally targeted the desktop computing market. It was built around tightly integrated hardware and software. The hardware was originally based on proprietary chips running the Motorola 68000 series of processors. The AmigaOS was designed from its inception as a true multi-threaded, multi-tasking, multi-media operating system. This combination of hardware and software produced a very fast, powerful and easy to use computing platform. Over 6 million Amiga computers were sold.

The Amiga platform was readily adopted by the television, motion picture and video game development communities.
This system was the enabler for the birth of Newtek's Video Toaster -- the first real-time video editing system. AmigaOS was also the first commercially available operating system to implement pre-emptive multitasking.

Over the years the computing industry moved from proprietary hardware to pluggable components. Stability and security became critical concerns for all operating systems. Support for 3D and easy access to and through the Internet drove development. Amiga responded to these market changes by releasing OS 3.1, 3.5 and 3.9.

In 2001, Amiga, Inc. entered into a license for the development of AmigaOS 4.0 with AmigaOne™ Partners, collectively Hyperion VOF and Eyetech Group Ltd. The license agreement was terminated on December 20, 2006

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