So Amiga has some tablets out, except they run Android and Windows7. Wait, what?
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amiga.comPosted Jul 17, 2011, 7:45 PM UTC
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amiga.comI was incredibly excited about the first half of your title.
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Really? I somehow can't see anyone selling hardware with AmigaOS on it. But yeah, my heart jumped a little bit as well =)
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Shrug. How much do you know about recent AmigaOS? i.e. 4.x, with memory protection (the historically major missing feature of AmigaOS)?
It got tied up in legal idiocy for a while, but there is new hardware with AmigaOS reportedly available, such as the sam range. The interesting-looking x1000 I linked elsepost isn't actually availabe to buy yet AFAIK, and who knows if it ever will be, but yeah, people do sell hardware with AmigaOS on it.
Modern AmigaOS still looks like a fairly reasonable OS for small computing appliances AFAICS, though as I'm by now firmly in the open-source camp, not sure I'd ever go back to it (of course AROS exists).
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You can get Amiga OS. It might even be quite nice. I'm not sure what you're supposed to do with it once you've got it though. Maybe dig up prehistoric software.
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Which is precisely the point I was trying to make.
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Those have been on "pre-order" for about ten years.
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what do you expect then to run??
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AmigaOS? AROS?
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Oh give up. The Amiga years are long ago and woudl never suit a modern day device. If it ran AOS you would be whinging!
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Is that website a joke?
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I wonder if Atari knows about this.
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This is what happens when some money-grubbing holding company buys up an old brand and goes around wearing its skin like a corporate-entity Ed Gein. Disgusting and sad.
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This won't be possible until Windows 8 comes out.
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That Amiga 8 looks fucking sweet!
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The Amiga Xpedio 7 MT is loaded with Android 2.2 and has enough power to upgrade to Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) once it is available.
LOL
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Three products run Android, one product runs Windows. What exactly are you confused about?
People remember the "Amiga" computer fondly. Labelling some fairly nondescript android - and, worse, windows - tablets as "Amiga" is just not really what people are hoping for when they imagine a resurrected amiga. The a-eon x1000 is rather obscure, but it is IMO (as an amiga user for many years before going to linux in the late 90s) much closer to what most ex-amiga people would imagine a modern amiga to be like. A non-PC PPC (plus odd coprocessor) system running amigaos...
Hell, even the recent c64 gimmick media pc looked like a c64 and bundled an emulator.
I'm not confused. I am aware they failed in the operating system market, it's just somewhat silly that they continue to use the name Amiga, which is synonymous with the Amiga OS, when they no longer support it. Comedic almost.
Ah, that makes much more sense than what I got out of your title, which was: "It runs both at the same time?"
I guess I am that literalist redditor :-(