From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel) Subject: Re: Mac & Amiga Smeared on The Site/MSNBC (Transcript wanted) Newsgroups: alt.religion.amiga,alt.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc Reply-To: peterk@combo.ganesha.com References: <2012.7154T609T711@nospam.com> <5s5acs$l2h$1@news.luth.se> Message-ID: Date: 6 Aug 97 17:05:07 MEZ Organization: Private Lines: 41 Path: 195.95.96.2!news.unisource.be!planetinternet.be!newsgate.unisource.nl!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!newsfeed.nacamar.de!blackbush.xlink.net!ganesha!combo.ganesha.com!peterk Xref: 195.95.96.2 alt.religion.amiga:613 alt.amiga:1123 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:179751 comp.sys.amiga.misc:149778 In article <5s5acs$l2h$1@news.luth.se> f95-dlg@jota.sm.luth.se (Daniel Lundberg) writes: >Anon (nospam@nospam.com) wrote: >M: Even Sandvik Underlid On 28-Jul-97 21:22:08 Wrote: > >M: >>die out. However, they would require several million dollars, a year or >M: >>two, and maybe 100+ staff to do a next-gen AmigaOS. > >M: >Did even Commodore have that many people working on AmigaOS? No, but ... >M: Perhaps not on the OS alone, but easily more when you count in other >M: things. Their hardware engineering department was in the amount of 100 people, software engineering was smaller most of the time (at one time after 1.3 even down to two people IIRC). >M: You cant just sit 10 coders down and make an OS. There's more > >Are you certain? >Consider the quality of some of the stuff available on Aminet, most >of which is the work of one person. Sure, also the first AmigaOS was the work of very few people, which is partly the reason why it is so consequent, coherent, consistent. >I think that 10 people with that kind of expertise getting _payed_ >to work full-time on AmigaOS which, admittably (sp?), is a rather >large project would suffice. (deep breath ;) ) Here comes the But: But it is a question of time. Those few people doing the first AmigaOS needed two or three years for this. You can't afford so long delays now, it has to happen as fast as possible. So throwing a few more people after that project would definitely help. -- Best Regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // http://www.pios.de of PIOS Private Site in Frankfurt, Germany \X/ office: peterk@pios.de Back from vacation, did anything happen? This account will soon change!