@Ben
Me and BeOS ?? You really should stop smoking whatever you smoke....
I never was into BeOS, and the only time I even installed was in early 2003, which prooved it's a pile ......
But I quite clearly do remember hearing "great thinks in the making" posts from you over the last years. All very vaque and all without any real result sofar.
Now instead of just putting me down you could have just told us what would be the selling point of OS4 (outside a few 1000 fanatics), when "it's small" certainly is not one. You can get a dozen of Linux-distros, dedicated OSes, and even WinCE to run on much less these days.
And that is without having to buy an overpriced/underpowered PPC-mobo (or as an alternative negotiate a lincence with a ghost-company in the vain hope that another small company might break their habit and actually delievers the port on schedule).
@Argus
Those people that are "waiting for OS4-final" are the same that:
- Didn't buy an A2000 as they waited for the price to drop
- Didn't buy an A3000 as they waited for the A4000
- Didn't buy an A4000 as they waited for more AGA-enabled SW
- Didn't buy an Escom-Amiga as the waited got the Walker
- Didn't buy 3.5/9 as they waited for Gateway/Amino to realize their QNX/Linux/Intent-dreams.
Saying "I'll buy if xxxx" is much easier than shelling out >1000EUR for a system that still is and will probraly allways be very limited in what one can do with it compared to the much cheaper options.
And how many are their sitting on the fence ? 1000 ? Maybe 2000 ? It would need atleast 10000 people not just buying A1/OS4 but also SW developed for it till one could talk about a profitable market that might bring new proffessional developers to the scene.
@HopperJF
The A1 IS old tech, basicly the same board that MAI failed to commercialze back in 2001. O.k. they packed it into a smaller format added a few gimmicks and maybe they even fixed some bugs, but in the heart of it, it is still tech from 2001, at prices from 1995....
Even if we forget the medicore HW, whats the point of it without adequte SW ?
Add all the stuff that has been announced over that last 2 years, and you'd still get a very thin layer of SW, and that is if all of it would actully be finished, something which is very unlikely for anyone with any experince in the market.
