MorphOS
The MorphOS operating system is a
proprietary
operating system produced by Genesi and other developers for their PegasosPPC hardware
platform as well as the already existing PowerPC accelerator boards for the Amiga, produced
by Phase5. It currently runs only on PowerPC processors by Motorola and
IBM, while still supporting the original AmigaOS MC680x0 applications via its
proprietary task based emulation solution and most of the newer, PPC AmigaOS applications
using API wrappers. It is API compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 but implements many enhancements
that bring it quite up to date, and a modern GUI based on MUI.
The project started in 1999, and it is based on the Quark microkernel.
It's currently under active development, with the latest user release being 1.4.
There is a growing user community that supports the OS as well as a number of
developers.
