[News] Hyperion chat log available | ANN.lu |
Posted on 19-Feb-2002 15:22 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 63 comments View flat View list |
The log from yesterday's IRC chat with Hyperion has been posted on the AUG99 homepage here.
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Posted by Alan Watson on 20-Feb-2002 01:53 GMT | In reply to Comment 14 (Mike Veroukis): >>Well, you definetly don't have a future in marketing.
I'm glad you said that,I hate marketing types...
>If there were a million users out there demaninding an x86 version of OS4,
>you'd be a fool to ignore them. I'm not saying there is a million x86er's
>out there, but your comment makes it seem like come hell or high water
>you're gonna build a PPC OS just because. Real smart.
I never said that it was smart,it's just my opinion,stupid as it may be:)On
the x86 OS4 issue,all I could see happening is somebody would write a
wrapper that sits on top of x86 OS4 and lets you run Windoze apps.From
Hyperions,and I'd guess quite a few other software developers,this would be
their worst nightmare(wonder why....)
I honestly can't see x86 Windoze users buying an x86 OS4,unless they already
own an Amiga and a PC,and don't fancy upgrading their Amiga again because of
the cost of the hardware to run OS4 PPC.I just can't see x86 owners who
already run Windoze being tempted by OS4,since none of the apps they use on
a daily basis are available for it.After all,why have some Amiga owners
bought pc's?I'd guess it's because they need/have to use certain apps for
their courses/jobs that run on x86,and would never appear on a 68xxx or PPC
based Amigas.Nowadays,an OS will never survive unless it has some
major/must-have applications(and games)running on it(unless it's free).At
this point in time,OS4 doesn't have this.It's just keeping the existing user
base alive,which we should be grateful for,until hopefully the above
software situation changes.... |
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