[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 smithy on 09-Nov-2001 19:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 190 (Bogus Realname): >* PPC was always the next step up from 68k since 1995
You mean 'in' 1995. This means we are dealing with 6-year old thinking and a 6-year old business plan. The computing market 6 years ago was a different
>* Amiga HW manufacturer has control about the hardware (e.g. implementing or
>deleting certain features) and has a direct connection to Amiga customers.
Ahh, but this isn't quite true. We can turn Mr Hermans arguments about competing with the big boys around on him when it comes to hardware. As I understand it AmigaOne will have standard hardware - i.e. PCI slots, etc... So what's to stop AmigaOne owners buying the cheaper PC hardware instead of an Amiga hardware maker's hardware? Do only software makers matter to Mr Hermans and not hardware makers? Why does he use software as an argument and not hardware? Is it because he runs a software company himself? |
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