I'm sure glad they invented and implemented Text-to-speech in W2K!
I used to have a lot of fun back in 1988 with text-to-speech on my Amiga 500. Now that MS has actualy invented this, I've come to realize that I must have been living in some other alternate reality back then.
So, for me, MS has done so much more than they modestly claim... they've defined REALITY!
1. QNX + Phase-5's PPC is being pushed as the "new Amiga".
2. The QNX OS and this one disk demo is really no big deal to Amiga folks.
3. AmigaOS is pretty modular, more so even than most Amiga folk realize: most of the ROM which one might think of as the "kernel" is really just library modules that get opened like any library on disk. I'm pretty darn sure a similar demo could be created with AmigaOS.
4. QNX is not free. More power to them. However "free" is almost always good, and that's one reason I think that AROS (an opensourced Amiga OS clone) is a better future for the Amiga than QNX.
I was driving up to the local coffee shop when I saw it. I have to say, it was an oddly beautiful site as the trail blossomed and then faded, and as the sun light refracted through the smoke to create a range of colors.
Of course, I had no idea what it was -- we thought it was just another rocket blowing up due probably to some metric to english conversion error...
Well this is either real good, or real bad. Maybe both. Collas was big on the linux thing and the consumer-multimedia-box thingy, while the rest of us hardcore Amigans want a computer with a powerfull AmigaOS. Perhaps they decide to lean more towards the computer side and Collas got pissed and left? Maybe AOS 3.5 is a hit. Maybe they just really, really underestimated the Classic Amiga. Maybe they're real scared of IWin and the BoXer and Phase5 and QNX taking all the Amiga's "mindshare" away...
Or maybe they just fucked up and are about to bankrupt again...
Well lets see, what else has happened recently? They "released" AmigaOS3.5, some company called IWin is making unbelievable claims about their new Amiga compatible, while makers of PPC cards are making a push for QNX on the Amiga.
Maybe there is a much bigger demand for 3.5 than they thought, maybe the IWin thing is for real, maybe QNX-PPC on existing Amigas is looking to be a real threat... maybe they realized the Linux choice was a big mistake in the eyes of the Amiga community?
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I'm sure glad they invented and implemented Text-to-speech in W2K!
I used to have a lot of fun back in 1988 with text-to-speech on my Amiga 500. Now that MS has actualy invented this, I've come to realize that I must have been living in some other alternate reality back then.
So, for me, MS has done so much more than they modestly claim... they've defined REALITY!
There's a new God in town..
1. QNX + Phase-5's PPC is being pushed as the "new Amiga".
2. The QNX OS and this one disk demo is really no big deal to Amiga folks.
3. AmigaOS is pretty modular, more so even than most Amiga folk realize: most of the ROM which one might think of as the "kernel" is really just library modules that get opened like any library on disk. I'm pretty darn sure a similar demo could be created with AmigaOS.
4. QNX is not free. More power to them. However "free" is almost always good, and that's one reason I think that AROS (an opensourced Amiga OS clone) is a better future for the Amiga than QNX.
I was driving up to the local coffee shop when I saw it. I have to say, it was an oddly beautiful site as the trail blossomed and then faded, and as the sun light refracted through the smoke to create a range of colors.
Of course, I had no idea what it was -- we thought it was just another rocket blowing up due probably to some metric to english conversion error...
Not worth $100 million.
Well this is either real good, or real bad. Maybe both. Collas was big on the linux thing and the consumer-multimedia-box thingy, while the rest of us hardcore Amigans want a computer with a powerfull AmigaOS. Perhaps they decide to lean more towards the computer side and Collas got pissed and left? Maybe AOS 3.5 is a hit. Maybe they just really, really underestimated the Classic Amiga. Maybe they're real scared of IWin and the BoXer and Phase5 and QNX taking all the Amiga's "mindshare" away...
Or maybe they just fucked up and are about to bankrupt again...
Well lets see, what else has happened recently? They "released" AmigaOS3.5, some company called IWin is making unbelievable claims about their new Amiga compatible, while makers of PPC cards are making a push for QNX on the Amiga.
Maybe there is a much bigger demand for 3.5 than they thought, maybe the IWin thing is for real, maybe QNX-PPC on existing Amigas is looking to be a real threat... maybe they realized the Linux choice was a big mistake in the eyes of the Amiga community?