[News] Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Nov-2001 20:45 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 194 comments View flat View list |
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 Mekanix on 08-Nov-2001 19:55 GMT | In reply to Comment 145 (Christophe Decanini): > I agree. History showed that successfull
> OS are the one delivered with the hardware.
Like... Atari? ... Amiga? ... BeBox?
Guess we are not reading the same historybooks...
> Why is Windows so famous?
Abused monopoly that goes way beyond x86.
> How much 0f PCs use Windows as a desktop OS ?
Less than 90-95%.
The question you have to ask is: How many PC's user an alternative OS as desktop? My bet is that any in that top 10 beats AmigaOS in installed userbase. In other words, you *can* have a large userbase on a Windows-dominated platform. But you will not own the platform (ie. have 100%), but 0,001% is still *huge*.
> Some people can say that Linux is famous on
> the PC. Yes famous as an alternative but it
> is far from being use widely as a desktop OS.
But still there is far more Linux-users than AmigaOS-users.
> I don't see any OS that could endanger
> Windows on x86. That very sad but it
> is a true reality.
And that is *exactly* where the problem is buried. No OS on *any* platform will endanger Windows in the forseeable future. It's apparent that many in this community suffers from at delusion that AmigaOS (on PPC) will be able to take on Microsoft. Get over it, i will never happen. The community isn't likely to expand, and any expansion that might happen will not happen on novelty HW.
AmigaOS is a niche OS, isn't a threat to Windows or any others. Just give the community the OS the cheapes possible way, x86. |
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