change in direction, replacing QNX
with GNU/Linux (largely compatible with QNX at the application level, like all
"Unixoid"
systems), and releasing detailed specifications of a new-generation Amiga hardware
platform with powerful multimedia capabilities.

On September 17, 1999, the Amiga companies announced that projects for the development
of a new Amiga computer had been abandoned.

At the end of December 1999, it was announced that Amino Development
Corporation, later renamed Amiga, Inc. (Washington), had licensed some Amiga
technology from Gateway. The new company then started working on new systems based on Tao Group Limited's
Intent platform, before ceasing operations in 2004. In a way reminiscent of
Sun's Java, Tao's Intent was a cross-platform system that enabled games and
multimedia applications to run on a diversity of mobile phones and other
devices. It was not related to the original Amiga operating system.

"Emulation WillIn December of 1930 a riot arose in the industrial town of Fordlandia in Aveiro, Brazil. Dissatisfied with the American food they were being served in the cafeteria, native Brazilian workers initiated a violent riot that would not be quelled until the Brazilian army intervened and dietary changes were enacted. With workers shouting chants such as “Brazil for Brazilians! Kill all the Americans!”...