[News] Thendic France comment on OS4.0 | ANN.lu |
Posted on 17-Aug-2002 19:55 GMT by cheesegrate | 165 comments View flat View list |
On an ANN thread Bill and Raquel comment on their attitude towareds AmigaOS4 and it's appearance on the pegasos.
"If AmigaOS4.0 is fully finished and running natively on a
PPC we will be happy for Hyperion and Amiga Inc. Undoubtedly, in this community
there will be more than one person who will copy a legally obtained copy
of the operating system onto the Pegasos. How will Amiga Inc. stop this?
We cannot control this and neither can they. If AmigaOS4.0 becomes what
it is claimed to be – great! We will sell a few more Pegasos machines.
Thanks Hyperion! We wish them our best. We have absolutely nothing against
this effort."
Personally I think that no hardware developers who don't licence the amiga
name will pay money for certification to get os4 running on their boards.
However because the pegasos and the amiga one share the same northbridge
and BIOS (atm), it should not be difficult for a developer to port os4 across
to the pegasos. The question is; Will Hyperion and Amiga Inc allow this without
wanting money from Bplan/Thendic France? And does it matter?
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Posted by Keith Blakemore-Noble on 18-Aug-2002 11:13 GMT | In reply to Comment 22 (.john): "Rumors (?) hit the street, Apple might go x86 within the next years. "
Those "rumours" have been totally debunked many times over now. It was an over-enthusiastic journo completely misinterpreting a very simple throwaway line Jobbs used about "it's nice to have options". the journo immediately assumed this means Apple were going full-on x86 in the next year or two. Jobbs simply meant it as a dig at Mot for not increasing the performance of the G4 as much as they shoudl have done (let us not forget IBM also make the PPC and Apple would not be against moving to IBM PPC chips in the future if they turn out to be more powerful in later generations - "it's nice to have options"). |
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