Really? Prior to September 30, 2009 that would have been a valid statement.
Having said that, there is also the question of resources both human and financial.
AmigaOS is a 32 bit big Endian oriented operating system, be it 68K or PPC.
Moving to x86, ARM or even RISC-V would be no small feat as these are little endian. It can be done of course - technically.
Unless we move to 64 bit and the whole issue becomes moot but again, this would require a massive investment."
Really? so the endianess?? the byte orientation is the main obstacle?
Is ARM Little endian though? ARM (like most RISC) architectures is what the call biendian. Biendian means that is can run as bigendian or littleendian. The standard way of doing things in ARM is to come up in little endian the switch to bigendian if you want to, or set one of the control lines on the CPU to come up in bigendian mode.
Really? Prior to September 30, 2009 that would have been a valid statement.
Having said that, there is also the question of resources both human and financial.
AmigaOS is a 32 bit big Endian oriented operating system, be it 68K or PPC.
Moving to x86, ARM or even RISC-V would be no small feat as these are little endian. It can be done of course - technically.
Unless we move to 64 bit and the whole issue becomes moot but again, this would require a massive investment.
I'm confused. I just checked the page at the Kruispunt bank der Ondernemingen, not that I'm interested in joining Hyperion again, don't worry. But I somewhat wanted to know what Hyperion was all about these days.
There is some gibberish about computer stuff etc but then ... I noticed these:
VAT 2008 70.210 - Public relations and communication activities Since January 2, 2014 VAT 2008 70.220 - Business and other management consultancy activities Since January 2, 2014
I bet the "Business and other management consultancy activities" is a clerical error, (while I'm at it ... you may want to fix the mention of "Ex officio striked off address since May 29, 2017" in your own company ...) so I take it your reappearance here is about the Public relations leg ?
Yours truly, Evert (back to real work)
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Moving to x86, ARM or even RISC-V would be no small feat as these are little endian. It can be done of course - technically.
Technically, on ARM, you can chose what endian mode you wish to use, you can even chose between two big-endian modes on many of them. And this isn't new - I maintained binary packages for Gentoo Linux on big-endian ARM (started on Linksys NSLU2, Intel XScale IXP420) since 2004 or so.
Didn't take you long to stop getting back to the real work!
Your lawyer level knowledge of AmigaOS just written out on the postage stamp which is your last post, I don't understand why you care about Amiga and are basically a talking head and supposedly the guy with the cash to pay developers who actually know about AmigaOS but even then you fail to keep that responsibility up by not paying those who did work in good faith.
From the companies who acquired Amiga rights through the C= bankruptcy and basically squandered any chance of striking a new credible Amiga whilst there was a chance, through to the likes of ego maniacs like you and Bill McEwan, you play on the Amiga faithful who blindly follow, expecting something like the second coming.
I have no skin in this - MorphOS, AROS, OS4, all interesting but nothing ground-breaking like the magic that was weaved when they built the Amiga - it really did die in April 1994 and its only the goodwill then the naivety of Amiga users and developers who let this horror show continue year after year by giving you just enough income to declare there is a viable business to be run and protected at any cost. You are the great pretender, Ben - Steve Jobs you are not mate!
Welcome. I didn't expect after all this time you would directly speak to the users. And I appreciate you have to be careful what you say because of subjudice.
So you don't have to say anything in reply. But please read what I have to say.
There are many trolls here, and many who will likely be angry at you rightly or wrongly, without knowing the full story. Please ignore the trolls.
OS4 is a great product. The product vision and technical direction is, in my humble opinion, truly 'Amiga'. If it wasn't we'd have all switched to MorphOS by now. OS3.1.4 is also great. And I excitedly look forward to 3.2.
I know the old Amiga Inc guys were a waste of time and space. I met them and talked with them at industry conferences in the early 2000s. They were idiots. I don't blame you for negotiating hard with them, it was necessary.
I also have great respect for Mike at Cloanto. From what I can tell he has tried to pull everything back together into one entity. He has supported Amiga development all this time, as have you, when almost everyone else gave up. I implore you both to stop wasting time and energy fighting in the courts, even if that may be your instinct because you are a professional lawyer, and to find a way to work together for the greater good. There is still a little money to be made here, not much, but a bit, and surely there won't be any at all if you keep fighting.
A coming together of what you can both offer, with the aim of finishing what you started and some hope of at least breaking even on everything you've invested is the only possible good outcome. There is no other outcome for either of you that doesn't leave you both worse off.