Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!mcnc!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture Message-ID: <1991Apr23.192046.21177@ncsu.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 19:20:46 GMT References: <1991Apr18.161346.3409@ncsu.edu> <1991Apr18.174928.21079@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Apr20.130639.27962@ncsu.edu> <1137@cbmger.UUCP> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 39 In <1137@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: >> Not only does OS-9 run on the basic CD-I chips, but also a realtime Unix >> clone with MMU protection and paging, GEM, and windowing Tripos. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > And you really aren't talking about Amiga and its OS here??? :-) Umm. Not talking about its OS; but yah I don't think any of us are convinced that Ami gfx hardware is tops any more. [note to Politically Correct Police: No slam intended... it's still very good for the price right now. Go away :-] Still, sure, it'd be great if the Amiga OS were available on other computers. Don't you think so? More support, etc. Perhaps whenever a DIG upgrade... > Anyway, this sounds interesting. Could you tell more about this new > incarnation of Tripos? You'd have to ask METACOMCO, and also the company (forgot its name - can dig it up if necessary) which did this particular port. I would suspect that the current Amiga OS is far beyond whatever Tripos looks like now. > You also could see it the other way round: > Another backing for the Amiga OS, at least its multitasking kernel. Funny, when I suggested here a while back that running the Mac OS on the Atari/Amiga was another "backing" for the Mac OS, I got "corrected" :-) :-) Anyway, my point was that there are some (and will be more) neat 68K machines available... and I think (at the risk of hurting kids' feelings) that many computer owners become too 'provincial'. Meaning that they turn into hardware brandname groupies; and so lose the ability to see some newer/better things. (I've often wondered what would happen if there were net.appliance.advocacy groups? Would GE icecrusher owners slug it out with B&D icecrusher owners? :) Yet I'm a provincial also ;-). I've stuck with Motorola cpus since day one. I wonder what we'll all be saying/using ten years from now tho? Hard to tell! The only "truth" is that to stop searching for better/cheaper, is to lose what brought many of us to the Amiga. Well crap, I'm preaching again . Please kill me when I do that, ok? smiles - kev