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Re: Would you buy OS4 or MOS for x86?
« on: April 08, 2011, 11:56:50 PM »
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This was done to catch 22 death already.

x86 = a million combinations of hardware. Drivers will never be finished for any x86 version of either. AROS is free anyway.


MorphOS does not support all combinations of Mac PPC hardware but it didn't stop users registering it.
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Re: Would you buy OS4 or MOS for x86?
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2011, 12:31:23 AM »
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The people who own the 1% of all Macs ever made that are supported you mean?


It is more than enouhg. There is probably a few million Mac computers which are MorphOS compatible.

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For x86 you will need to spend 1000s of man hours going from PPC to x86.....then send 1000s more creating drivers for a fraction of the 1 million component combinations still in use that equal the x86 'standard'.


Why? You can limit your support to certain brand of computers.

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That's the problem....x86 being a standard is an illusion and the Windows registry file he duct tape holding it together[badly].


PPC is the standard then? Oh right, it is so standard that MorphOS boots even on ACube hardware :-)
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