That would be Trevor Dickinson, one of the A-eon partners, not Hyperion.
Well, their(Hyperion, Hermans) stand against x86 is well known for years. I guess admitting defeat may be too much for some egos. Maybe ARM, but that is still a distant future (possibility?) for high-performance desktops.
At least they changed their mind about Pegasos. They even denied any plans of porting OS4.x to it even though they were working on it behind the scenes at that time. The release of 4.x for pegasos machines took everyone by surprise, so it would not surprise me if the same happened with x86 in the future. It is really a bad business decision to reveal such plans when you got another system about to be released. Imagine if hyperion today announced that x86 port for cheap affordable hardware was annoucned, would you then think X1000 or acube would sell at all?? Announcing x86 support at this time would be like shooting themselves, aeon and acube in the leg.
Edit: And oh yeah.. There was no plans for classic port of 4.1 either and they denied that even a short while ago and yet oddly enough they announced the port this weekend.
