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I bought an Amiga 1200 (used) in the mid '90s, invested in a then expensive Blizzard 1260 and SCSI, used the system for years as my primary work computer, then
by johnklos 3y ago
I bought an Amiga 1200 (used) in the mid '90s, invested in a then expensive Blizzard 1260 and SCSI, used the system for years as my primary work computer, then rackmounted it and turned it in to NetBSD server.
Sure, it had to be recapped, and it has gone through several drives, but it has run mostly continuously since 1995. It's good hardware, and it's responsible for many of the m68k pkgsrc binary packages available today.
Just recently I recapped an Amiga 3000 and started playing with AmigaDOS 3.2.2. I could browse the web, with https, with 16 megs on a 25 MHz m68030. Because of Datatypes, I could even see webp, which my previous Mac couldn't. The OS has had recent updates. AmiSSL is based off of OpenSSL 3.x. Software and browsers are still being updated. It's amazing.
It's definitely an excellent candidate for a 50 year computer :)
- christkv 3y agoI have to say I've been eyeing a Vampire standalone to play with the Amiga platform again. But I know I'll not have enough time to dedicate to it.
- phero_cnstrcts 3y agoDataTypes was and is such a brilliant invention.
- pjmlp 3y agoThe closest we have to them is COM, and it doesn't cover all use cases, nor is as friendly to develop for. There are also XPC, Binder, D-BUS, all of which are even less adopted as Data Types were.
- sillywalk 3y ago> https, with 16 megs on a 25 MHz m68030 I imagine that's a bit slow. :)