[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 12:17 GMT | In reply to Comment 6 (Mekanix): >How does that differ from the 99.9% of Amiga-users who does this with a >different x86-box next to the Amiga?
I don't think it is the case. I have no PC and a lot of the people I know only own their Amiga. Some of them have PS2, some of them may have a PC.
>I really don't get this attitude that people haven AmigaOS on a x86 gets an >urge to boot Windows while having a x86 next to an overexpencive AmigaHW you >are less inclined to boot windows? There is no logic in this. This only spells >a smaller userbase.
Smaller user base but a user base that allows commercial development. How could Hyperion, Haage & Partner, ... compete against windows software ?
Do you thing Newtek will do a new lightwave for an x86 Amiga ? No way they would just say "use our Windows version".
>AmigaOS 4.x for x86 will not happen, which mean it's certain now that we'll
We don't know.
>have a second fork of the Amiga community: AROS/Amithlon. 2 fighting for a >minischule overpriced PPC-market and one going for the mainstream x86 >architecture.
Why should the PPC be overpriced ? If it is it will fail and Aros will be the only solution. It will be also the end of commercial applications.
>Anyone for a bet on which one will end up with the largest installed userbase? >My money is on AROS/Amithlon, which suits me just fine.
I bet that in my Amiga shop the most active customers will be the one that have a real AMiga ... |
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