[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 Christophe Decanini on 08-Nov-2001 12:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (smithy): >Would Linux have been a success like it is without a x86 port? No.
I agree. But Linux is a cheap world for home users.
Look how successful are company that tried to sell software for these users.
Amiga won't go the same way as Linux.
>Would QNX have been a success like it is without a x86 port? No.
QNX has been a success on embeded systems before going on X86. I don't think they are selling a lot of systems for desktop use.
>Would half as many people be using Solaris if there was no x86 port. No.
Solaris is mostly on Sparc system. Go on sun.com and find out how many x86 they sell.
>Would half as many people still be using AmigaOS, and active members of the >community if it wasn't for UAE/x86 and Amithlon/x86? No
These UAE users are not contributing ($$$)as much as the people that own a real
I own an Amiga shop and we never see the x86 users coming ... |
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