Comment Re:Have to agree (Score 1) 291
I agree as well. I am going to wait and see what happens. I will definately purchase the machine. A lot of people are frightened of the idea of Linux being used as the core kernel of the OS or OE, what have you. I felt the same way when I first read the information. I was shocked and I too wondered what was so "revolutionary" about that. I started thinking of it a little differently though. Kickstart can be thought of as the core kernel of the classic Amiga OS. Kickstart is very small and really plays no huge part in the overall use of the Amiga. We have seen Kickstart evolve from a floppy disk to a ROM, yet the actual OS, AmigaDos, could very well have run if Kickstart was originally Linux.
Since it actually seems as if there will be a tangible product released in the semi-near future, whereas there has not been anything remarkable released for the Amiga Community to salivate over in far too many years, I think that it would be wise to see what Amiga Inc. has to offer once they actually have it to offer. I can say one thing from my own personal experience of having worked at Gateway for over a year and that is that they are a very secretive bunch. Even though it seems like they are holding back half of the information we want to find out, they are holding back three times as much as we think they are. I don't want to lose some of the features that only the Amiga has offered, such as multiple resolutions displayed simultaneously on multiple screens, dynamic RAM disks, screen sizes that you can set the size of yourself rather than having four choices, etc. I would like to see a browser better than IBrowse, and action games better than Gloom though. I want to finally have a machine that can hurt the hell out of Microsoft. At present, I show people my Amigas quite often and although they are impressed by a lot, there isn't much I could sell them on buying one with. I think that Amiga Inc. will actually be giving us a machine that we can show off to Beamers and perhaps cause them to make a purchase of their own. With this in mind, I think that they will become very well supported and that anything we have to complain about now, would inevitably be taken care of later, especially considering the fact that the best shareware and PD writers in the world are Amigans.
Since it actually seems as if there will be a tangible product released in the semi-near future, whereas there has not been anything remarkable released for the Amiga Community to salivate over in far too many years, I think that it would be wise to see what Amiga Inc. has to offer once they actually have it to offer. I can say one thing from my own personal experience of having worked at Gateway for over a year and that is that they are a very secretive bunch. Even though it seems like they are holding back half of the information we want to find out, they are holding back three times as much as we think they are. I don't want to lose some of the features that only the Amiga has offered, such as multiple resolutions displayed simultaneously on multiple screens, dynamic RAM disks, screen sizes that you can set the size of yourself rather than having four choices, etc. I would like to see a browser better than IBrowse, and action games better than Gloom though. I want to finally have a machine that can hurt the hell out of Microsoft. At present, I show people my Amigas quite often and although they are impressed by a lot, there isn't much I could sell them on buying one with. I think that Amiga Inc. will actually be giving us a machine that we can show off to Beamers and perhaps cause them to make a purchase of their own. With this in mind, I think that they will become very well supported and that anything we have to complain about now, would inevitably be taken care of later, especially considering the fact that the best shareware and PD writers in the world are Amigans.
