[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 Bill Hoggett on 08-Nov-2001 21:17 GMT | In reply to Comment 156 (Mr.Return): > All progress of OS4.x will be unavailable for x86-users,
> even if it would be possible to add PPC-emulation you will
> have serious licensing problems.
I didn't miss that point. I simply said it's "no big deal". It is yet to be seen if OS 4.x will offer anything outstanding unavailable elsewhere, or if killer applications will be developed for it. I won't lose any sleep about not being able to run OS 4.x, believe me.
> But it will be no problem to add support for x86-stuff
> into the OS 4 kernel, although I doubt it will be ever
> necessary
x86 support is one thing, Amithlon compatibility is another. Do you think there will be no chages between now and say the end of 2002? I doubt there will be any way to incorporate compatibility for programs written specifically for Amithlon into AmigaOS 4.x at that stage. Besides, the whole point of the Hyperion strategy is to EXCLUDE x86 users, not include them.
This is not a one-way split where Amithlon is excluded. It's a total split where both sides become incompatible with each other, and I suspect that the one with the bigger number of software buying users will end up on top. |
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