[kstrauser]

There's an ongoing legal squabble about which is the “real” AmigaOS, for the dozens of people deeply affected by such important decisions.

FWIW, from what I've read, the 3.2 series seems like the “real” branch to me, not 3.9.

[bhaak]

I don’t think the 3.9 branch is less real than the 3.2 branch.

Both branched off from the original Commodore source code, didn’t they?

[kstrauser]

Just my own take here:

3.5 and 3.9 felt like “3.1 plus some bundled, licensed shareware”. Which is fine! It’s nice to have a baseline where you know everyone running that version has a particular TCP stack or dock app or whatever. But 3.1.x and 3.2 to me “feel” like newer versions of 3.1 with actual OS updates (and also plenty of bundled shareware).

I wouldn't argue against someone who sees it the the opposite way.

[doctor_radium]

I was living Amiga daily during the OS 3.9 days, and have no reason to think it didn't come from the Commodore source. Back then I got the feeling it was called "3.9" because the various powers assumed it would be the last release of 3.x. I've never used Hyperion's 3.x, but that is official, too, if largely a backport of 4.x, which of course also came from official source. I would say Hyperion jumped into 3.x (against their contract?) in search of cash, as nostalgia for these old systems increased and ARM emulator boards (etc.) made it possible.

OS4 is still the future, but the cost of PPC motherboards greatly limits the market size.

[snvzz]

>OS4 is still the future

AROS is.

OS4 being a hard break while also being privative, closed source means it will never see significant adoption.

>the cost of PPC motherboards greatly limits the market size.

PPC has no future. RISC-V is where it's at.

Of course, back in the 90s, there was no way of knowing this.

[actionfromafar]

Can’t remember if either use the sources at all.