Alan Redhouse Interviewed

[Coder]

And in terms of real sales for real money (which in my view is the ultimate measure of success - anyone can give boards away) we really seem to have no significant competition to date.

If anyone can do just that what's stopping Eyetech of just doing that? A few boards to developers. It sure is the better marketing thing. Who can do it you say? Anyone, right? :-) Also the giving away of a board will result in people buying a new version of that board.

Pegasos/MorphOS is competition.

We are also working with Hyperion to try to make a hard-disk installable version of OS4 beta available to all existing A1 Earlybird customers and developers, hopefully before this Christmas.

Now that would be something. Still no final version but something. How about the Cyberstorm people?

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[Coder]

It is nice to see the harware side is making some progress. But the one part that remains behind is OS4. Well behind, just not ready. A1 has always been targetted with OS4. As the main combination. Not Linux. Linux was something that you also could run. Don't tell me that now it suddenly is Linux which is the main thing together with the A1.

A1 and OS4+ from the start, right?

No matter how much you admire it all or if you are the biggest fan you just have to admit that OS4 is late, very late. Don't tell me different, it's just true.

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