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Interview with Bill M on Extremetech : Comment 26 of 98 | ANN.lu |
Posted by LieByLie on 12-Nov-2002 12:37 GMT | Bill: EyeTech is one of the larger computer resellers in England
Vague, but false, unless "Police Academy 6 is one of the best movies ever made"
Bill: The Amiga One is our spec, our design, but they built it.
The A1 is MAI's spec, MAI's design and built by MAI for MAI's customers, who include Eyetech. Bill had never even seen a board until AmiWest this year.
Bill: I guess it is now, but only with Linux on it.
A1 boards are still slowly trickling out to beta testers who ordered in March. If you order one today it might arrive in December, or January.
Bill: it's just about ready to go – in three more weeks.
OS4 for PPC accelerators is still more than three weeks away, OS4 for A1 owners is months away. I guess "two weeks" isn't as great sounding as it used to be.
Bill: all the old Amiga applications run on it
No-one knows how many old Amiga apps will work since the Friedens still don't have a version of OS4 with 68K emulation. Best guess is that initially rather less will work than on Amithlon. Hundreds of famous Amiga apps will certainly never run properly on OS4.
[Will it cost more than boxed Linux distros?]
Bill McEwen: No.
Last prices seen from Hyperion are $60 for OS4 without developer kit, printed system manuals etc. Linux distros are often $40 or less (and of course they include all development tools and install support). So Bill has to find $20 per copy to pay Hyperion to make this happen. From where?
Bill: OS5 due out within 12 months from when OS4 ships
No-one is working on OS5.
[At this point the ET interviewer confronts Bill with various accusations from the Amiga users, and Bill dismisses all of them as untrue.]
Basically, no tech interviewer is going to reply "You're lying" or "You evaded the question. Answer properly" in an interview, so for a fraud like Bill these interviews are an opportunity to say /anything/ that will make people give him money. |
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