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Ask HN: Could Commodore have ported AmigaOS to run on top of Linux?
2 points by amichail 8 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Maybe they could have even hired Linus to lead the project?



Why would they have? Commodore went bankrupt in 1994. That’s the same year that 3 years after having released the initial version of his hobby OS Linus released the 1.0 kernel. A kernel which supported only 32-bit x86 processors. Why would Commodore target an unstable and feature lacking hobby kernel which targeted a different processor family? What problem would they even be trying to solve by porting to a different kernel?

For the sake of argument let’s assume there is some perceived benefit for porting AmigaOS to running on a Unix based platform. Commodore had Amiga Unix which was a port of AT&T Sytem V Release 4 which they sold as an alternative to AmigaOS. Wouldn’t this have made more sense for them to target?


You can buy an amiga emulator now that will run on linux (or Mac, or Windows) if you want.


Who'd buy it?




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