Firstly, Amiga/Gateway have not announced what harware the new Amiga
will be based on - only that the new OS will be by QNX who provide
their Os for use in the NASA space shuttle among other majar
companies. It is used because it is a small, compact, romable stable
OS core based on posix/unix. It is available for download at their
website for numerous platforms. It is quite small unlike MS windoze

Secondly Amiga/Gateway have said that they do not intend to
manufacture any hardware and simply intend to licence the various
Amiga technologies - as they do with the current "Amiga Classic"

Thirdly, Gateway has it's "Digital Convergance" strategy whereby it
aims to integrate Amiga Technologies transparently into consumer goods
as tv/computers/video/cable/satellite/DVD/internet/te lecoms ect ect
all merge - perhaps eventually into one box.

Amiga inc should have their development box out any day now which uses
intel PC and probably PC version of QNX neutrino OS

By the way this has been written on an A1200 tower dual 25mhz 040,
240mhz PPC,BlizzardVision Permedia2 graphics card, 128Mb Ram, prelude
sound card, 32*CD-ROM, 8GB HD, 17" monitor
I also have a P200 so I can bring home my work, but thats the only
time I ever use it - I can not believe how bloated windoze'98 is. I
have used Acorn Archimedes, Amigas , Atari's, Apples, Linux, NetBSD
and windows is simply overbloated crap.

I can only hope that the new Amiga and OS will be licenced freely and
openly. Since the new(and old) OS are closely releated to unix,
hopefully they will be free source