Re: Advocating Linux

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 15:39:47 +0100

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On 2004-11-01, mutant wrote:

>>What's an Amiga?
> Who's young!?
>
> The Amiga was a computer, released by Commodore in 1985, that was
> the most advanced personal computer on the market at the time.
> There was a lot of truth to the quip seen in Amiga circles that
> "Windows 95 = AmigaOS 85", though Windows still had some catching
> up to do.
>
> Unfortunately, development did not keep pace with the rest of the
> PC world,

Sadly did C= invlolve into the x86 market, where they lost hords of money (of
course that the board fo C= did put a lot money in their own pockets didn't
help C=). Otherwise we could most likely seen a more competative Amiga, today
there are two options for those who want an "Amiga", the Pegasos and AmigaOne,
they are based on the PowerPC CPU, but the OS has backward compability to
allow to run old Amiga Classic programs.

> I still miss some things about the Amiga, but it was no longer a
> viable machine.

You have the UAE or even better the E-UAE, for those using Gentoo, both are in
the portage tree.

  //Aho

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