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Re: How much would it cost to port AmigaOS to x64?
« on: April 04, 2012, 03:38:38 PM »
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OS4 needs to remain PPC.

Exactly!

OS4 was not ever intended to go head to head with Windows. This is why Apple will never go x86 because once a system can run Windows or SomethingElse, people will ALWAYS run Windows!

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Re: How much would it cost to port AmigaOS to x64?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2012, 03:03:02 PM »
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It doesn't matter, technical issues are utterly irrelevant to these people. "x64 is the Only Possible Future of Amiga!" is largely a mantra uttered with religious fervor and zero comprehension as a prayer to the Great God Intel, Dominator of the Market. If the PDP-8 made a sudden and inexplicable return and overthrow of the desktop market, they'd be suggesting OS4 get ported to that.


Hmm, I don't think it's so much that people are in love with Intel as it is that products which just happen to use Intel are readily available and generally inexpensive. So yes, you're right, if there was another commodity leader then people would want to target that instead. I don't see anything wrong with that. I do see something wrong in leveraging the wallets of a few pensioners "just because".