[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 Graham on 08-Nov-2001 09:48 GMT | In reply to Comment 44 (Fabio Alemagna): - The fact it went bankrupt it's due just to the fact that it didn't have an
- enough big userbase. If it stuck with PPC it would have gon banckrupt much
- earlier, this is for sure.
It was doing fine when it was writing an OS for its own PPC boxes. Extending the features to the PPC Mac was logical, but reduced BeBox sales, so they got out of the hardware business. They ported to x86, but they said it was PC compatible when it didn't support most of the hardware.
It failed because most people couldn't run it on their PCs and get full hardware support. When the BeBox was around, the hardware could be restricted. The Mac is also restricted in terms of hardware. The PC is chockablock with hardware - supporting it all is a nightmare.
If Amiga were to go the x86(-64) route, they should make it clear that it will not run on a PC. An Amiga x86 would not have a BIOS, but a 2MB flash ROM, for example (yes, basically a bigger BIOS chip as these are 256KB flash ROMs, with Amiga stuff in it, not a BIOS). The supported hardware would be restricted - e.g., limited to chipset X, graphics cards Y&Z, audio W, and so on. So basically a custom motherboard that just happens to have an x86 in it as a CPU.
To be honest, the NG Amiga will not take off in my opinion, at most it will have a mild success. |
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