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Offline takemehomegrandma

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Re: Hyperion Entertainment Developer Blog
« on: December 21, 2010, 07:51:54 AM »
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What? PPCs are "Intel generic architecture"?

Stoopid!


No it's not, which kind of is OS4's problem...
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Re: Hyperion Entertainment Developer Blog
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2010, 08:33:39 AM »
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Totally unlike that other amiga-derivative OS.

...which indeed shares the "tied to the PPC anchor" faith of OS4, but at least aims to be running on all relevant PPC mainstream HW. Because if there is such a thing as mainstream PPC HW, then it consists of machines like the e-mac, mac mini, power mac and power book...

Ben Hermans and the Frieden brothers on the other hand doesn't think mainstream PPC HW is a small enough market, so they need to narrow the options down even further to systems built in batches of 30 units, costing a magnitude more, while offering less.

That shows the difference in philosophies between the two - MorphOS aims for being runnable on as many platforms as possible, and if there would have been an easy way of making it x86 to run on generic Intel HW they would probably have done it some time ago already, while OS4 wouldn't, because then "it would get pirated" (or such strange arguments)...
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Re: Hyperion Entertainment Developer Blog
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2010, 10:11:23 AM »
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I think the argument was:

If it runs on x86 hardware, it would mean the user would want to try another x86 OS, if user try other OS he will leave AmigaOS.


Yeah I've seen that one as well (there are many "arguments" against x86), and that one is even more stupid. It's so stupid it hurts.
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Re: Hyperion Entertainment Developer Blog
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2010, 07:04:08 AM »
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Yes you are right but I also mean AROS shamelessly even tries to look like AmigaOS with the dock bar and the way it functions I mean all they have to do is add subdocks and the photocopy is almost complete. Yes the icons are drawn a little differently and they call it Wanderer instead of workbench but they are not trying to hard to make it a whole lot more different are they?

It's like as if they badly want AmigaOS but not on PPC so they are just photocopying it so to speak onto x86. Looks like a rip off, works like a rip off so it is a rip off.

At least MorphOS looks different.


However, AROS was here first so you could definitely argue who is ripping who off! :-P
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