Question for TrevorD

[ajlwalker]

It strikes me that the OP would like to be an OS4 user but has a perception that going OS4 is expensive.

The way I look at it, my A500 cost me about £300 back in 1989. Yeah, I got the bare bones system with no software.

Now, going by RPI that same £300 is over £650 in today's money. That is about the price of a SAM system. So it's not really any more expensive than back in the day.

[ajlwalker]

there it goes again, the memorized line of argumentation. but with a500 one was buying a cutting edge system with a wide software support not a half supported motherboard with no proper branding and almost no unique software of any.

I haven't memorised anything, nor have I to my knowledge used that argument before.

The argument wasn't about software support, but about cost of entry.

But for that matter, which has more software support now? OS4.X or OS 3.X? And which is likely to have the most support in the future?

I'm not arguing it is the same value for money, merely that the cost of entry is very similar.

In actual fact I have only taken account the purchasing power of money and not the earning power of the individual. Many will be earning way more than they did in the late 80s and early 90s. Personally, for that reason the cost of entry now for me is relatively miniscule.