This is an interesting "what if" story. What if they pushed on with CAOS, would it have been awesome or would the Amiga never have existed as a commercial product. We will never know.
Alas I suspect that no combination of business and technical decisions could have allowed Commodore to succeed long term. They never had the scale or product market fit to succeed in the 32 bit era. Apple barely made it.
Even so, good business decisions were very rare at Commodore post-Tramiel. The only CEO who seemed to have a functional head on his shoulders was Thomas Rattigan, and he got canned after a year as CEO because Irving Gould was jealous of him. That the company survived as long as it did under the direct rule of Gould and then Mehdi Ali was nothing short of miraculous.
I'm not sure Commodore would have made it to 2000 even under better leadership, but I'm absolutely certain were it not for Gould's cupidity and Ali's braindead decrees, the company probably wouldn't have sunk as hard and fast as it did.
This is one of my favorite things with the Mac. I feel it is very intuitive me moving the app to Applications, then just move it to trash if it sucks and it is completely gone.
setup.exe .pkg installers make me feel dirty because I hav enough control over how it will fuck up my system or not.
I think most of the complexity is around the concept of disk images. If the app was just distributed in a zip file (like many in fact are) then you just unzip it, and the application is right there. You can move it to /Applications if you want (and many apps offer this) but it's not necessary.
Disk images seem to be much rarer on other platforms, and are usually only used for images of optical disks. Even the concept of "ejection" can be confusing, especially since when mounted disk images appear almost identical to actual physical removable media. I'd like to hear the reasoning behind why mounting disk images isn't relegated to a vestigal "power user" feature by now, since it seems like zip files (especially in appledouble format) can serve the same needs for most normal user flows.
The app icon approach only give the illusion of control. That may be worth something too, but whether you run a .pkg or a program, the app developer can do whatever they want with the permissions you grant it.
There is an advantage to being able to move a program to any locations and run it from there, and while the same can easily be done on Windows (just make one big .exe!), it's not expected for users to just move install directories around.
That said, programs break the same way: configuration pointing at wrong directories, permissions going wacky, you name it. It just seems to go wrong less often on macOS because of developer expectations.
The moving step is not intuitive, read other comments, it's also redundant in a better designed system. And of course it's not completely gone, but leaves plenty of garbage behind.
And of course you have no control over it
They don't say that. They say the 5P diet is unhealthy and the Mediterranean diet is healthy. But the Mediterranean diet contains the 5 P's too -- just in moderation and accompanied by lots of vegetables. So the 5 P's aren't necessarily unhealthy by themselves, but a diet that basically only has the 5P's is.
Italy is also famous for deli meats. I’m going to hazard a guess that not every Italian is buying raw meat and then preparing traditional dishes from scratch with it using only the freshest of natural ingredients etc.
No of course, but a whole prosciutto package is very little (100g). There aren't enough calories in a single package to make you fat. Way easier to attribute the problem to pasta. Eating that lunch and dinner, if you make it using non-veggies a pasta dish can easily be more than 600 calories (and that also depends on how much is eaten).
Prosciutto is often eaten with melon, or with figs, so yeah it's processed meat, but then it's eaten with fiber and healthy micronutrients.
Mozzarella could be a problem too (center of Italy), eating a mozzarella with tomato and basil (caprese) is simple, yet the mozzarella is loaded with calories.
Then again, most dishes in Italy use natural ingredients, but that doesn't spare you from getting fat. Take pasta with egg and guanciale (carbonara) is a ton of calories even if home made
I wonder if biscotti is the real deal. In Italy, kids have breakfast with a cup of milk and X amount of biscuits, those are sugar, flour, egg, milk and something else to give flavor. Eat 4 of those and it's 200 calories. Eat 8 of those and it starts to get scary (400 calories) + 1 cup of milk = ~550 calories.
This would be funny to hear for you, but to become fat in the south you just have to have a good appetite: most moms, grandmas and aunts will cook you INCREDIBLE meals (very flavorful stuff), but of course it will also be loaded with fats.
The likelihood of this being a problem related to preprocessed stuff is low
capitalism needs to sell you more food and bigger portions.
BIG FARMERS BREAKFAST, and many types of breakfast foods are largely a marketing invention; many societies never ate large breakfasts, and many still don't, e.g. the soup & natto breakfast in Japan
I think this is very impressive. I remember from eons ago people were running Linux on Amiga, but then it was the later models with 68040 processors with more RAM.
As far as I remember no one ran it on a 68000 with 2 megabytes of RAM.
Could Linux today run on an Amiga 500 with RAM expansion, in this same way?
I don't exactly recall the memory differences (Chip RAM vs Fast RAM and all that) but assuming you have enough Chip/Fast RAM and thereabout of a megabyte in a storage medium for the actual kernel binary; I don't see why it should not be possible.
If WHDLoad is a thing on base 500/500+ then you'd be able to fit more stuff on the "userspace" side of things, since 1.44 megs can't really hold much (And having to swap floppies in the way Workbench does it is not something I'm sure can be done on Linux).
The main issue I see is that you'd probably need to "free" up memory by unloading Workbench (If it's loaded) and possibly re-configuring the hardware (So it's in a known good state for Linux), but yeah; it should honestly be feasible.
I've been slowly working on getting fuzix working on my amiga 1200. It boots the kernel I just don't have a file system for it yet. Though my 1200 has ~10MB RAM.
Do you only have a RAM expansion? If you have an MMU normal m68k linux will work for you. I have an a4000 running linux with an nvidia gpu ;) The drivers for the amiga filesystem etc all still work.
If you have the stock 020 we (me and the other people messing with this stuff) can make that work. the 68000 support needs one tiny thing, fixing the stack frame differences between the 000 and the 010+, and it'll boot on basically anything.
An a4000..wow my dream machine. I have an ACA1221lc[0] in there. A firm believer in real hardware. I really want an easy way of swapping out the cf card so I can make my fuzix port bootable and easily reflash the card.
For the moment I have a floppy disk that loads my network card drivers and then copies the kernel over the network into ram. That makes debugging things way easier than having to burn a floppy with every code change.
Go back in history, why did Microsoft create xbox at all?
It was Bill Gates fear of being overtaken by some "living room PC" or set top box that never materialized. It was an industry wild goose chase basically, with echos of past efforts (remember Philips CD-i ?)
Is this a concern Microsoft has today? xbox was a money sink from the beginning.
The sad part is they bought a bunch of very good game studios.
However filtering for these hide my e-mail addresses is quite easy if you are motivated to do it, they have a recognizable pattern.