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Title: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: reflect on July 23, 2003, 04:53:09 PM

On the OS4OnTour in Gothenburg, Ben Hermans from Hyperion made a lengthy speech which was recorded and filmed. We're now making the mp3 of the speech publically available here. (http://www.acggbg.org/~reflect/OS4/)

Title: Re: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: mikeymike on July 23, 2003, 07:25:49 PM

Nothing particularly new was said, if you're thinking of downloading the mp3 but you're on a modem connection :)

Title: Re: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: Lo on July 23, 2003, 09:09:17 PM

Nice to hear confidence in the product.  Sounds like it may be available before Christmas.

Title: Re: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: JoannaK on July 23, 2003, 10:22:20 PM

A nice speech...  A bit old release of mp3 conversion though, considering this speech was given on late June, but better late than never.

(edit) Appartently there have been earlier release but it had worse sound quality..  That'll explain the delay.

Title: Re: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: weirdami on July 23, 2003, 10:58:15 PM

It's pretty neat to listen to. It's only about 7MB, so modem download isn't so bad. Ben seems very enthusiastic and positive, which is very good news even if some people think what he said was "nothing new". Thanks for releasing the MP3!  :pint:

Title: Re: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: downix on July 24, 2003, 01:27:12 AM

Wait, OS4 doesn't even have a native compiler yet?

Title: Re: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: downix on July 24, 2003, 01:37:24 AM

BTW Ben, you're welcome.  

As I've said before, competition brings out the best in people.  I'm glad you finally realized that.

Now, can't wait till AOS4 ships so we can grind you into the ground.  8)

"Come one, come all, it's the fight of the century!  In this corner, wearing the red and white checkmark boxers, the current worlds chamption, AmigaOS 4.  And in this corner, wearing the blue butterfly trunks, the challenger, MorphOS!"

Title: Re: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: Casper on July 24, 2003, 09:09:24 AM

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"Come one, come all, it's the fight of the century! In this corner, wearing the red and white checkmark boxers, the current worlds chamption, AmigaOS 4. And in this corner, wearing the blue butterfly trunks, the challenger, MorphOS!"

"ding, ding, ding, *SMACK*, *THUNK*, 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10...And the contender was knocked out in the first 10 seconds of the first round!"

Just kidding (couldn't resist). :-)

*Casper puts on his flame retardent suit*

Title: Re: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: Rogue on July 24, 2003, 01:26:19 PM

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Wait, OS4 doesn't even have a native compiler yet?

It has, in the meantime. It wasn't that high priority since we had cross compilers on almost all systems, like Linux/x86, Linux/PowerPC, MacOSX, OS 3.9, and Win32/Cygwin.

Remember that this speech is already quite dated.

Title: Re: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: downix on July 24, 2003, 02:08:37 PM

@Rogue

Ok, phew.  Was afraid for a second.  The lack of a native compiler held back AROS for a long time.

And the cross-compiler idea is good, after all, MorphOS already offers that.

Title: Re: Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Post by: bloodline on July 24, 2003, 03:38:19 PM

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Ok, phew. Was afraid for a second. The lack of a native compiler held back AROS for a long

It's still holding AROS back  :cry: IMHO