[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 Brecht on 08-Nov-2001 23:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 158 (Kay Are Ulvestad): >It's not nice to call eachother names, pick
apart the things your "opponents" say looking for flaws to make a cheap point, or
just laugh at other people's opinions (notice how I'm not mentioning names here ;-)).
I apologise... I always am pissed when someone does the same to me, but I sometimes forget that. :/
>But I'll
add that I like the idea of having a platform which is significantly different from
the Wintel machines which currently dominate all areas of the market. Being different
might not really be a bad thing if you want to draw some interest. I think PPC
development seems to be progressing nicely these days. It doesn't look much like
a dead end to me, not for the time being anyway.
I meant that PPC is a dead-end for AmigaOS in this situation.
>Now, there was an idea about custom
x86 hardware mentioned here somewhere. I think it is an interesting idea, and it could
indeed combine some of the advantages of the earlier proposed paths (standard x86 and
custom PPC).
No. It's not about the architecture of x86, it's because x86 is mainstream and cheap, and that you *can* multiboot. A custom AOS-only x86 board is the exact oppisye.
>However, seeing as we already have some PPC applications, and AmigaOS PPC
can probably be done both sooner and easier, I think I'd still go with AOS4.0 PPC.
I'd go for both a PPC and x86 OS. Providing developers with a common API (endianess problems wiltered out by the Amithlon compiler?), a cross-compiler and some guidelines to make both x86 and PPC executables.
>Ok, that's how I feel about the current situation and the future. Feel free to flame me, but do it *politely* please.
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