| Sunday, November 24, 2002 |
19:09 - The OS That Would Not Die
http://www.blachford.info/morphos/morphos_in_detail.html
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Kris points me to this article on MorphOS, which is a new effort to modernize the Amiga platform (sigh, yes, Amiga) and rebuild it as a global OS that stands at the center of another new breed of unique applications.
It's supposed to be PPC-based, meaning it can currently (or will shortly) run on Open Firmware PPC boxes (read: Mac clones) and some older Macs.
An interesting read from a technical standpoint, but still more so from a sociological one. How many times has the Amiga burst into flames and hatched again, now? Surely nobody really expects that this effort will go anywhere-- but it's a testament to the iron will of some people who refuse to stop believing in the dream their computers represented, even if that dream lives on now only in their memories.
Doomed, but valiant, as Kris puts it. It's possible to respect the latter even if the former is true-- and to leave open the possibilities just in case it does have a chance. Sometimes, after all, discretion is not the better part of valor.
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