| [News] Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 07-Nov-2001 20:45 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 194 comments
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Christoph Gutjahr interviewed Hyperion about AmigaOS 4.0.
You can read the interview on amiga-news.de in English or in German.
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| Posted by Kay Are Ulvestad on 08-Nov-2001 15:15 GMT | In reply to Comment 86 (m0ns00n):
Is this outburst somehow meant to be a reply to what I wrote? The only thing you
wrote which has some relevance to what I wrote is the bit about UAE users not
buying software, and you got that wrong. I never said UAE users never buy software,
I'm simply saying they don't buy much software. You having bought IB2 doesn't convince
me otherwise. IB2 is ONE piece of software, and that might just be above average for
UAE users (given that most of them are retro gamers)...
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Being able to code stuff for ECS is great fun, I'm sure, but I really doubt it is much
of a way forward. I think we need an updated AmigaOS. I think we need some new apps,
and some backwards compatability. I think we need better hardware. Perhaps this could
be done with AmigaOS for PPC, it could be done with AmigaOS x86, but I sincerely doubt
it could be done with UAE.
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>AmigaOS is going down the drain, and I won't sink with the ship. I won't be
>stupid and let the rest of the world leave me with competance on a system no
>employer needs, and with a system I can't afford(!).
I will work with whatever OS puts food on the table during work hours, and with
what I enjoy working with in my spare time.
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Oh and finally, AmigaOS PPC versus x86, which I didn't originally comment on at
all...I think that PPC is the way to go for now. Now, before people start a long
patronizing ramble about price/performance and the availability advanages of X86:
I know that. We all do. It's not the point. The point is, AmigaOS running in
parallell with Windows would be competing more directly with Windows. Sure, a lot
of you have x86 boxes by now. But if an Amiga is your main system, you probably
prefer to buy Amiga software instead of Windows equivalents. Would that still be so
if you had Windows and AmigaOS both installed on the same system, just a reboot away
from eachother? Given the pricing and availability of Windows software, I don't
think so. And as for those of us who don't even have a Windows based system (I'm
one of them), we certainly would get Windows if it ran on the same hardware. Would
we buy less Amiga software? Probably. So Amiga software development would take a
hit. As would retail. Then there is hardware. AmigaOS x86 is the end of custom
Amiga hardware development. Now, this might be a good thing or a bad thing depends on
your viewpoint, but I'll tell you this much: It WILL harm retail.
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AmigaOS x86 would be a possibility if we had software development to compete with
Windows. As for now, we don't. Thus we can't support retail (we barely can now).
Then who will sell Amiga products? And who will make them?
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