AmigaOS 4

Second five-eighth writes "The Amiga is alive and sort of well (you can get the OS, but not the hardware), and Ars Technica has a review of the final version of AmigaOS 4. New features include limited memory protection, 3D display drivers, an improved suite of applications (the bounty for porting Mozilla to AmigaOS has yet to be claimed), and much better 680x0 emulation. Perhaps most telling, the reviewer was able to move his daily writing workflow from Windows XP to AmigaOS 4.0: 'Not only was it possible to do this, but having done so I feel no urge to switch back. It is nice to not have any distractions when working — there is no waiting for the system to swap out when switching between major applications, no constant reminders for updates or to download new virus definitions and even if the worst happens and the system locks up, it takes only seven seconds to reboot and get back to a functional desktop.'"

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Re:Spaceballs?

[alamandrax]

Raspberry! I hate raspberry! Even more than I hate Yoghurt!

Seriously though, you'd go through all of that rather than stay on Windows XP? Man Windows XP must suck! Why don't I know/notice that? Is it because I grew up using this thing and have learnt to live with it's quirks and whims that I've become desensitized to its treatment of me?

Am I like the kid Devlin kidnapped? That's scary if I think about it.