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Comment 1 | Teemu I. Yliselä | | 13-Apr-2002 10:49 GMT |
Comment 2 | Jørn Rune Jakobsen | | 13-Apr-2002 10:57 GMT |
Comment 3 | DaveW | | 13-Apr-2002 11:06 GMT |
Comment 4 | Björn Hagström | | 13-Apr-2002 12:06 GMT |
Comment 5 | SlimJim | | 13-Apr-2002 12:23 GMT |
Comment 6 | Keith Blakemore-Noble | | 13-Apr-2002 12:26 GMT |
Comment 7 | Björn Hagström | | 13-Apr-2002 12:41 GMT |
Comment 8 | Anonymous | | 13-Apr-2002 12:52 GMT |
Comment 9 | Anonymous | | 13-Apr-2002 12:52 GMT |
Comment 10 | SlimJim | | 13-Apr-2002 12:52 GMT |
Comment 11 | Keith Blakemore-Noble | | 13-Apr-2002 12:52 GMT |
Comment 12 | Gregory Hayes | | 13-Apr-2002 12:55 GMT |
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Posted by Tialaramex on 13-Apr-2002 12:57 GMT | In reply to Comment 6 (Keith Blakemore-Noble): No, it's the other way around. This is closer to the behaviour of Apple. They can't afford to actually develop software at market prices, and they refuse to compete on a level playing field, so their OS requires specialist hardware even though it has no need to. How Hyperion (who would presumably be happy to sell as many copies of AOS 4.0 as they can) fit into this is harder to see, maybe they view this as an anti-piracy measure.
As far as I understand it this is no different from the A1200 era Amigas, you couldn't run Linux or BSD on them back then, so C= could tie the hardware to the operating system without anyone throwing a fit.
The good news here is that cheaper non-Amiga PPC boards will be available from Eyetech for the vast majority of PPC users who don't want to run AmigaOS but do appreciate a new PPC motherboard. Hopefully Eyetech didn't have to fight too hard for that. |
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