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What MorphOS Is All About

Posted by timothy on from the sweet-icons-a-bonus dept.

Gentu writes "Genesi released today an extensive feature list of MorphOS, the pre-emptively multi-tasking operating system for PPC. MorphOS/Pegasos is a brand new platform (the last full OS+HW platform released was 7 years ago with Be's BeBox) so it is very modern and it has support for 3D cards, USB, SMP while it also features partial Amiga application binary compatibility! Additionally, OSNews today features an interview with the Eclipsis Project Manager, Nicholas Blachford, about MorphOS, and they include three exclusive screenshots of the OS."

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  1. That's Great... by Quaoar · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...if the guy announcing a PPC product isn't wearing a turtle-neck and saying "oh and...one last thing," I don't care.

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    1. Re:That's Great... by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny

      If it doesn't help Ellen Feiss with her homework, I don't care.

  2. Multitasking by Comster · · Score: 5, Funny

    These exculsive screens even show that it can handle mp3 playback and timezone changing at the same time. What next, reading email while doing graphic design?

  3. to paraphrase an old Dilbert strip by Anonymous+Squonk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where Dilbert creates a device to convert pocket lint into a parsley substitute:

    "That's absolutely brilliant, and completely unmarketable."

  4. Re:Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Unfortunately anything vaguely Amiga related is cursed, and will not only bring financial ruin to all who promote it, it'll send them crazy, running & screaming in circles yelling "sex and free beer! sex and free beer"

    This includes if the entire AmigaOS and related code goes OSS. It'll find a way...

  5. Yea but, by Kurt+Russell · · Score: 5, Funny

    will it make the Internet faster.

    1. Re:Yea but, by falzer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Quoting simpsons at length without getting modded up as funny... that's a paddlin'.

  6. No Photoshop? by User+956 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn, too bad it doesn't run Photoshop. We all know running Photoshop is the way to unleash the real power of the PowerPC chip.

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  7. Please Remember by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    No. Please remember that this is Slashdot and the unholy words shall not be uttered:

    1. "Useful"
    2. "Beowulf"
    3. "Microsoft"

    Oh and everyone is not a lawyer here. Good day to you. Bitchass.

  8. Re:A question that I need answered by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > "I just dont understand why you would use something like this"

    >>Are we not Nerds?

    Yes we are. If you prick us, we DO NOT Bleed. If you pay us we will come. If you build it we Will Buy It

  9. Pre-emptive multitasking? by Mabonus · · Score: 1, Funny

    the pre-emptively multi-tasking operating system

    Is it just me or isn't pre-emptiveness kinda required for multitasking? "Well, I'd love to accept some keyboard input, but I'm afraid seti is busy now..." Smells like buzzwords to me.

  10. English Joke by Chembryl · · Score: 3, Funny
    But is the mascot a little brown plasticine man?

    When can we expect ChasOS? Or even TonyHartOS?

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