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PC? PCs sucked, Amiga was THE machine.

Therefor my expections for PCs was uhm, nothing actually, DOS and Windows sucked, the PCs was expensive and boring. Why would I expect anything from that?

On the other side the A1200 and A4000 had been released, so I guess I would have some crazy thought if you had asked me where it would end in 10 years. But as we all know Commodore screwed it all up, and todays is even worse.

It's so weird how the death of a computer platform can stop the whole computer evolution ;). Todays PCs are no more than last decades Amigas =)

AMIGA RULES, PC SUXX! Btw, keep up the good work Genesi (Creators of the Pegasos PPC platform which ships together with MorphOS) and of course the AROS-guys.

About time someone brought that up. From MoL's FAQ:

Does MOL run on non-Apple hardware?
It does. MOL runs for instance on the Pegasos board, the Teron board and on AmigaOne hardware. In short, MOL should run on any PowerPC hardware (with the except of 601-based systems). However, the EULA of MacOS prohibits its usage on non-Apple hardware (it is of course perfectly legal to use MOL to boot a second Linux though).

For more powerful Screenshots showing the Pegasos (Motherboard) and MorphOS (Operating System) in action please go here. A lot of Galleries!

I wouldn't know, Bill Buck (loose-lipped CEO of Thendic, vendor of the Pegasos POP mobo and the "AmigaOS classic" compatible MorphOS, for those who wonder) has not yet shared any private correspondence regarding that... ;)

The "word on the street" is that Hyperion only filled out and faxed back a survey of interest sent out to potentially interested developers some time last year, and then never actually ordered a board.

I see there's a thread on ANN.lu now, and from Buck's posts there it seems like Hyperion haven't contacted them since February, and there's also a public PR stunt about inviting Hyperion's Ben Hermans to lunch and offering a Pegasos board.

I seriously doubt that Hyperion - or anyone else - would actually be refused to buy a piece of hardware by anyone.

If an OS is to be ported to another piece of hardware (and the Pegasos and TeronCX are nearly identical in that respect), it's of course up to the software vendor/developer to make it happen, nobody else. Again, it's not as if it's difficult to get hold of a Pegasos (or a friggin' Mac or whatever).

OTOH it's pretty pointless for Hyperion to start porting the OS to any hardware, until some hypothetical distributor rides in on a white horse waving a license and a dongle. That's the obstacle which must be removed.

The big issue is not what preoccupies a few fanatic trolls in the Amiga community, i.e. some kind of twisted, invented animosity and faction-forming among people who for one reason or another have "chosen" one POP board over another, or one Amiga-classic emulating OS over another. It's about the survival of AmigaOS and its dependency on the availability of hardware options, which unfortunately are things largely ignored in the pathetic flamewars.

This motherboard also comes with a version of linux for PPC. Besides that MorphOS will also run on Amigas equiped with a PPC cpu and rumour goes a PowerMac version could be released one day.

This motherboard also comes with a version of linux for PPC. Besides that MorphOS will also run on Amigas equiped with a PPC cpu and rumour goes a PowerMac version could be released one day.

Take a look at the Pegasos. It's a far better design than the AmigaOne (being built by the ex-phase5 guys; bplan) and it's release really is imminent. Runs Linux too of course...