Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle buys AmigaOS to merge it with Solaris ?!?!
Anon Y Mous wrote: I can't believe this is real: http://commodoretoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/oracle-open-sources-amiga-os-desktop.html I guess no one reads DISCLAIMERS these days? Scroll down... "Commodore Today is a parody and alternate history blog..." ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle buys AmigaOS to merge it with Solaris ?!?!
It must be fake. It only make waves...what is not bad, by the way ;-) Best regards, HeCSa. On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 19:34 -0700, Anon Y Mous wrote: > Must be fake then. Just when I thought this was the most interesting thing to > happen since OpenSolaris was ported to the iphone. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle buys AmigaOS to merge it with Solaris ?!?!
Must be fake then. Just when I thought this was the most interesting thing to happen since OpenSolaris was ported to the iphone. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle buys AmigaOS to merge it with Solaris ?!?!
Yep, reads like BS to me On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Anon Y Mous wrote: > > I can't believe this is real: > > I can't either, since Oracle would not issue any press release referring to > "their Solaris OS", since they yet don't own Solaris nor Sun. > > The lack of any information on Oracle.com and the content of the other > postings > on http://commodoretoday.blogspot.com/ (like references to Steve Wozniak > as the > CEO of "Commodore") makes it seem much more like an early April Fool's > joke. > > -- >-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > ___ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle buys AmigaOS to merge it with Solaris ?!?!
Anon Y Mous wrote: > I can't believe this is real: I can't either, since Oracle would not issue any press release referring to "their Solaris OS", since they yet don't own Solaris nor Sun. The lack of any information on Oracle.com and the content of the other postings on http://commodoretoday.blogspot.com/ (like references to Steve Wozniak as the CEO of "Commodore") makes it seem much more like an early April Fool's joke. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle buys AmigaOS to merge it with Solaris ?!?!
Also note this: "The Amiga is able to emulate other computer platforms ranging from many 8-bit systems such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo Entertainment System, Apple II and the TRS-80, up to platforms such as the IBM PC, Apple Macintosh and Atari ST. MAME (the arcade machine emulator) is also available for Amiga systems with PPC accelerator card upgrades." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulation_on_the_Amiga I always wanted to get all the old Nintendo and MAME arcade games running under OpenSolaris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME It's good to know that Oracle and I are on the same page ;-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle buys AmigaOS to merge it with Solaris ?!?!
I was reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga and I came up with one possible (albeit unlikely) theory. The wikipedia article says the following: "The Amiga is not limited to solely the 68k CPU architecture; although Commodore never shipped one, it is possible to install a PowerPC coprocessor that can be used by PowerPC-aware software and libraries,[13] and later the AmigaOne used a PowerPC CPU instead of a 68k CPU." -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Oracle buys AmigaOS to merge it with Solaris ?!?!
I can't believe this is real: http://commodoretoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/oracle-open-sources-amiga-os-desktop.html It is VERY cool though. Two thumbs up to Larry Ellison and McNealy and co. Basic summary is this: (1) Oracle buys AmigaOS and releases a press statement where they claim that the "reasons for obtaining the AmigaOS were for technologies to integrate into their own Solaris server OS, not to continue development of a desktop OS." (2) Oracle open-sources AmigaOS and releases the source code to a crowd of enthusiastic long-in-the-tooth Amiga die-hards who still want to continue development of AmigaOS as an open source community outside of Oracle. What do you guys think about this? Anybody have any guesses or ideas as to what AmigaOS technologies might be integrated into Solaris? On a different note: I always thought Sun probably should have acquired SGI IRIX many, many years ago and merged it with Solaris. It would have made sense to do this back in the late 1990's or very early 2000's since a lot of the Hollywood film studios were using SGI IRIX to do the modeling, animation, shading , lighting, etc. for their films, and then after the IRIX machines had done their job, the footage would get passed on to a massive cluster of Solaris SPARC servers that would act as a "rendering farm" that would take the hundreds of thousands of individual frames and render them into the actual film. It seems like it's much too late for it to be financially worthwhile to merge IRIX and Solaris now though, as I'm guessing most of those Hollywood film studios have already dumped all their SGI boxes and now use a mix of Mac OS X and Linux, am I right? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
