Bribing people to port new, resource hungry software to a decade-old platform is an exercise in frustration. Now, someone else in this thread said that the AmiZilla port is more aimed at the "new and exciting" AmigaOS that everyone's been promising for the last five years. Hey, that would be great. My impression was that some poor bastard was taking on the task of porting Moz to his A500, and that just struck me as futile and impractical.
The port of Mozilla to AmigaOS is not for people with a stock A500 and AmigaOS 1.3. It is for those with much more powerful Amigas and at least AmigaOS 3.x. The preferred OS will be AmigaOS 4.0 at it is soon to be released, running on new PowerPC hardware. It will also work with MorphOS, which is in its 1.4 release, and runs on the Pegasos PowerPC platform. MorphOS shares the same API's as AmigaOS 3.1.
If and when Micro$oft is split, the two resulting companies will more than likely work very closely with each other. Bill with have alot of stock in both companies, so what he says will still go.
I was just about to post this same info. When I lived there, the literacy rate was 92% (1987-1989).
If backwoods means no disposable income, then there would be use for places to spend disposable income.
Hmm. I do know that in Costa Rica you will find: Macdonalds, Pizza Hut, Dominos Pizza, Taco Bell, KFC, Hardys, Burger King, and other major restaurant chains, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Cheverolet, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, etc., numerous computer shops, a couple amusement parks, and more big shopping malls than necessary to support 3.5 million people.
You know absolutly nothing about Costa Rica or Mexicans, or else you wouldn't say such garbage. What a bad statement, but then again, nothing is as bad as an Anonymous Coward.
I use to live in Costa Rica from 1987 to 1989, and most people there had never used or even seen a computer. Amazing what happens in ten years.
Internet access right now is pretty expensive for the Ticos. My father is vacationing there right now. The only way to get email to me is via a friend, as my step-brother he is staying with has no way to afford the cost of using an ISP.
This is great news. Although with the Costa Rican government running it, we here in the USA are going to be the ones paying for it. The USA gives Costa Rica over $700 million a year to support their government, education, and medical systems.
I would like it better if it were implimented via the private sector.
The first time I used BASIC was in 1977. It came with my Commodore Pet 2001. For about 2 years ALL the software I had for it was open source. Compute Magazine for years published source code for programs in their mag. Not only that, they had versions for about every 8 bit machine out at the time. I wonder what Bill thought of Compute at the time. He must have like them, as he advertised in the mag. What I find increadible is how Bill is trying to tell another programmer why software should be paid for during a period when most software was free. Bill acts like he invented logicil expressions and flow-charting. I'm suprised he hasn't tried making them Micro$oft's IP by patenting them.
I don't know who told you that the Toaster is not broadcast quality, but they are wrong. The Video Toaster exceeds the bandwith of the NTSC RS-170A broadcast specification. It has a full D2 video frame (752x480). It is a composite/digital broadcast quality device. If its not, you'd better tell the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to stop using it. Every second of that show is edited on the Video Toaster Flyer system.
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The port of Mozilla to AmigaOS is not for people with a stock A500 and AmigaOS 1.3. It is for those with much more powerful Amigas and at least AmigaOS 3.x. The preferred OS will be AmigaOS 4.0 at it is soon to be released, running on new PowerPC hardware. It will also work with MorphOS, which is in its 1.4 release, and runs on the Pegasos PowerPC platform. MorphOS shares the same API's as AmigaOS 3.1.
Actually it is now over $8400.
Looks like you just replied without reading the new item.
Congratulations, Linus! How soon are you going to have her working on the Kernal?
The split wont change a thing.
If backwoods means no disposable income, then there would be use for places to spend disposable income.
Hmm. I do know that in Costa Rica you will find: Macdonalds, Pizza Hut, Dominos Pizza, Taco Bell, KFC, Hardys, Burger King, and other major restaurant chains, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Cheverolet, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, etc., numerous computer shops, a couple amusement parks, and more big shopping malls than necessary to support 3.5 million people.
You know absolutly nothing about Costa Rica or Mexicans, or else you wouldn't say such garbage. What a bad statement, but then again, nothing is as bad as an Anonymous Coward.
You are so completely ignorant! Costa Ricans are mainly descended from Spaniards. They are differ...oops... I almost forgot. You are an a-coward.
Internet access right now is pretty expensive for the Ticos. My father is vacationing there right now. The only way to get email to me is via a friend, as my step-brother he is staying with has no way to afford the cost of using an ISP.
This is great news. Although with the Costa Rican government running it, we here in the USA are going to be the ones paying for it. The USA gives Costa Rica over $700 million a year to support their government, education, and medical systems.
I would like it better if it were implimented via the private sector.
The first time I used BASIC was in 1977. It came with my Commodore Pet 2001. For about 2 years ALL the software I had for it was open source. Compute Magazine for years published source code for programs in their mag. Not only that, they had versions for about every 8 bit machine out at the time. I wonder what Bill thought of Compute at the time. He must have like them, as he advertised in the mag. What I find increadible is how Bill is trying to tell another programmer why software should be paid for during a period when most software was free. Bill acts like he invented logicil expressions and flow-charting. I'm suprised he hasn't tried making them Micro$oft's IP by patenting them.
I don't know who told you that the Toaster is not broadcast quality, but they are wrong. The Video Toaster exceeds the bandwith of the NTSC RS-170A broadcast specification. It has a full D2 video frame (752x480). It is a composite/digital broadcast quality device. If its not, you'd better tell the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to stop using it. Every second of that show is edited on the Video Toaster Flyer system.
BTW, I own a couple of them.