The link between software design & architecture seems to come up quite often and has, once again, in today’s SF Chronicle, in today’s Architext column by Arrol Gellner, “In home design, get with the program.”
Getting the itch for a brad lauster (dot com) re-design, I started looking through the list of Movable Type Donors for some inspiration and found the moreCrayons – color cube.
The Amiga lives!
That’s right, coolest OS from “back in the day” is still alive and still being developed.
Amiga recently published a preview of AmigaOS 4 containing screenshots of the upcomming OS.
At this point it looks largely like most Linuxes, save Intuition’s snazzy menus. Also, there are no descriptions of how a user will interact with the system, but that’s (unfortunately) to be expected from an OS company at this stage of the game.
If you poke around the Amiga website a bit, you’ll find some of the principles guiding the development of the new OS. Quite interesting…