For what it's worth, it was Amiga Inc who said OS4 would be released (several times), not Hyperion. Don't blame them for the screw ups that Amiga Inc made/make. (It's like blaming the coupons on Eyetech/Hyperion while they had nothing to do with that).
Does that mean Hyperion didn't tell Amiga Inc to go ahead and say that ? Who knows, but I doubt that.
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