Ben Hermans - Hyperion Entertainment Interviewed

[olegil]

Final remark: when shrinking partitions, you'll likely to end up with an highly  defragmented partition. So what you usually do is to defragment. So almost each  file will be read and rewritten; that's more or less the same as backing up all the data, repartitioning, reformatting, and restoring the backup.

Ex cept it's being done transparently, and in Windows you can't actually copy all files to another partition and back again anyway (at least not Win95 system files can't be moved?)

Of course, what one COULD do is to make an application that makes the whole process a bit more transparent to the user. I do it all the time on Linux systems with tar and fdisk, but some users might not be comfortable with that :-)

[olegil]

But would it make sense porting OS4 to Peg2 _now_?

Is there even a prototype or at least an emulator?
Can you be certain the darn thing will actually surface (no, previous products actually reaching a 600 person market does not count as a guarantee, I'm afraid. Even multibillion dollar companies will scrap ideas once in a while, so it would NOT be uncommon for someone like Genesi to change the specs of the Peg2 some or totyally  before release)
Is it economically sound? Do you know it will sell?

You see, it's difficult to predict, especially when it comes to the future ;-)

So I don't think everyone should take the route that "since OS4 does not as of yet run on non-existant hardware, it will most certainly fail". If enough of the right people want it to, it'll run on it, darn tootin! :-)