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Amiga Sells AmigaOS

Posted by timothy on from the sco's-in-the-market dept.

rocketjam writes "Amiga, Inc. announced today that it has sold the Amiga Operating System to KMOS, Inc., a corporation which 'develops and distributes enabling technology.' The deal included 'all of Amiga's right, title, source code, and all versions, from the "Classic Amiga Operating System" through AmigaOS 4.0 and all subsequent versions.' A spokesman said the sale would have no adverse affect on the release of a consumer version of AmigaOS 4.0 later this year. Amiga said it made the move in order to focus on the growing mobile market. The long saga of AmigaOS 4.0 continues." Reader Da writes "there're always other options should the Amiga curse continue. Also mentioned on OSNews."

3 of 422 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Dawn of the Dead by Danathar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    TROLL!!! It's a Joke!

    Man..no humor here!

  2. Re:Even with new owners... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One "feature" I miss from AmigaOS is the sheer, blazing speed. It flew along, even on 7 MHz machines.

    Today, Windows, OS X and Linux+GNOME/KDE run FAR slower than AmigaOS on systems several thousand times more powerful (considering CPU, RAM and HD speeds/capacities). Why should this be?

    Sure, the modern system does more, but not several thousand times more. It doesn't make me several thousand times more productive.

  3. Re:Has anybody checked........ by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, its not about your comment nor I call you 16 year old. I speak about ignorant teens born into Pentiums who believe higher Mhz is big deal and joking about a computer which changed World.

    I know, same people compare 500 Mhz Crays to 3000 Mhz Dell stuff...

    Sorry if I couldn't express myself