How much would it cost to port AmigaOS to x64?

[takemehomegrandma]

OS4 needs to remain PPC.

+1

:lol:

[takemehomegrandma]

@ OlafS3

IMHO, BeOS failed mostly because its mother company decided to try their luck by changing their core business to "Chase some IT-Bubble Dragon" at the time, resulting that its business burst with the bubble, and the OS went down with it. A case of corporate mismanagement IMHO. Sad, though...

(At least I have an official T-shirt and a portable CD-case/bag with BeOS logo as a souvenir to remember it by!

[takemehomegrandma]

Operating system success has nothing to do with most of the things people talk about. It has everything to do with marketing.

...and the science of marketing isn't about what most people thinks it is (advertisements etc), but identifying a need on a market and provide a way to satisfy that need with the right combination of Products, Price, Place and Promotion! If your product doesn't satisfy a true need, it's redundant, and it won't matter how much you advertize...

[takemehomegrandma]

If the need isn't there, you can create it.

No you can never create a need, but you can educate people about needs they thought they never had!

Happens for luxury goods all the time.

Most of us have many needs that makes us want various more or less "luxury" (unnecessary for our survival) goods, they are what has been driving the western economy the last 100 years...