| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 20 Sep 2001 at 19:18:35 |
| Subject: | RE: Please help : I cannot find a clear path anymore for Amiga : is t his correct ? |
hi,
> 1/ even more precise elements for OSes ("AmigaOS 4.x, 5.x with Amiga DE" and
> "AmigaDE on top of something else")
5.x is a long time away
> 2/ isn't Amithlon a hardware spec (x86 Athlon not Intel) with a 2 softwares
> for emulations (AMIthlon or AmigaOS XL). If so, this should be precised I
> think.
its a silly name. i believe it runs on Intel just as well
> 3/ is BoXer really still alive ?
well, anyone know any better? :-)
> 5/ Shouldn't there be information on MorphOS running emulated.
?? what systems can run MorphOS emulated?
> 6/ Shouldn't you add a space between Linux and PPC as there seems to be at
> least 3 flavour of linux running on PPC Amigas (LinuxPPC, Debian and Suse).
ooops, yes, it should be written Linux/PPC (as, as you say, LinuxPPC is a
distribution)
> And by the way, my motivation is that I wanted to know what are the next
> steps that appears as my beloved A4000mikronikized+CybPPC+CvPPC+7 uwSCSI
> HD+MO+Jaz+scanner+printer... seems to be aging and have more and more
> failure of the hardware. So I'm urged to make a move. AND I DON'T WANT TO
> LOOSE THAT FANTASTIC OS with all it's conviviality unmatched in other OSes
> (didn't try MacOS X but I doubt there is a shell for instance) and all the
one simply solution would be the prometheus... thats if a ZICO compliant
PPC card is released for it.
as for MacOS X, yes, theres shells...loads of them if you want 8-)
> I hope this page will be completed/amended during time until we get a clear
> view again (until AmigaInc has finished the transition and wars are over in
> our community).
I'll try! 8-)
alan