Amiga OS5 to be "better than Mac OS X"

by Brad Linder Oct 7th 2007

Remember Amiga? Back in the day, the computer/software maker was a serious contender. But the company hasn't released a new product in years, and apparently Amiga OS4 has been tied up in legal disputes.

Well, a new day is dawning, and Amiga CEO Bill McEwen says the company will be announcing details on Amiga OS5 later this year. He also says it will be "better than OS X," although he politely declined to give any supporting evidence for that assertion. You know, like telling us about a single feature that would be included in the new OS.

McEwen does say OS5 will scale "to its host hardware," meaning the operating system will run on everything from mobile phones through desktop PCs.

[via Slashdot]

Tags: amiga, amiga-os5, bill-mcewen, os, os-x, os4, os5

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

DiRT said 8:42PM on 10-07-2007

The C64 was "better than OS X"!

MW said 8:50PM on 10-07-2007

Hahaha.. Not exactly hard to better OS X.

gordon said 10:55AM on 10-08-2007

I remember when the Amiga was way cool. If I remember correctly a lot of airports used amigas because they didn't crash

Enzo said 3:51PM on 10-08-2007

Better then OSX? I doubt that. OSX Tiger is an example of what a true OS should be, and with Leopard on the way it's only going to perfect on that.

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