New Amiga Hardware Runs Mac OS

Ethan writes: "A developer on the Yahoo Amiga One mailing list has successfully installed MacOS 9.2 using Mac On Linux. And it seems that adding OS X support is on the to-do horizon for the MOL developers. I think that it will be interesting to see the people at Apple lose some sleep now that a low cost, fast, off the shelf solution exists to run Mac OS, without any Apple hardware. If it doesn't do anything else, at least it will give the people buying the new Amiga One G3 PPC board an existing software base." Mind you, I've never even seen an Amiga One, but it would be a pretty silly thing to make up ;) Update: 07/05 07:03 GMT by T : Mike Bouma piped up with a link to a page featuring the same hardware, in this case running Debian, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla.

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Urban Myth: VHS was inferior for consumers

[joneshenry]

That VHS was the technologically inferior choice that consumers were "tricked" into purchasing is simply an urban myth that has been exposed by those examining the role of pornography in encouraging growth and adoption of new media. VHS won because its length was more convenient for the renting of pornographic movies versus Betamax's initial targetting of time-shifting. VHS served a real need for people to be able to more conveniently view pornography in the privacy of their home.

Open your mind and you'll see that the triumph of VHS was the triumph of freedom versus the corporate vision of Betamax, a decision the consumers wisely made. The consumers made the right decision.