Interview with Trevor Dickinson

[runequester]

the morphos dudes will be thrilled that he has a machine with it installed Im sure

[runequester]

and even with 16 cores, whatever version of windows they are peddling by then will still make it run essentially at the same speed as a 16 meg scumpaq running windows 3.1

[runequester]

Yes your absolutely right, but I'll be running linux or hackintosh
 
Steven

"liberating" PC's

[runequester]

Every time people talk about porting OS4 to x86, it always makes me wonder if I am the only person in the world who know about AROS ?

Heck, they even sell it pre installed on brand new computers these days.

What other amiga flavour can you get for 300 pounds or less on a brand new machine?

[runequester]

Im not sure giving motherboards away that will not run OS4 is really a great idea for Hyperion.

Maybe Microsoft can follow it up by giving people a commodore 64 and hoping they'll buy windows 7 to install on it ?

[runequester]

everyone is aware that the x1000 is not the only machine being sold that can run OS4, correct?

[runequester]

If his main concern was sales, he could just resell Dell machines with windows and put amiga stickers on them.

[runequester]

I think the issue is not what Trevor spends his money on, but the limited resources of the OS4 team.  People that currently use it or want to use may not think it is the wisest thing to bend to the whim of a guy throwing money around when all Hyperion gets in the end for a years+ work is 50 sold copies of OS4.

This has been one of the main arguments against x86 by Hyperion and others.  Not enough resources.  If they port to x86 many repeatedly argued that the other versions will get neglected and features will not be added during the time they are working on the port.  Namely because there are so little resources.

Yet, here we have them using those limited resources to port to something that has 0 future and 50+ sales?  Don't you see the irony in those two things?

Did every SAM machine vanish overnight while I wasn't looking?

[runequester]

Did PPC become viable for the desktop again whilst I wasn't?

By what definition of viable ?
We already have an amiga OS for x86.

[runequester]

They could easily compete against AROS, Karlos. A professionally supported OS could move much faster and capture more users than an Open Sourced OS does, at least, in theory.

Two cents...

these two things are NOT mutually exclusive.

[runequester]

I don't see Linux overtaking either OSX or Windows any time soon, do you?

There's 160.000 Android phones being sold per day that disagree with you