Would you buy OS4 or MOS for x86?

[Digiman]

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.

(answer = no to be clear )

PS can't vote as no "waiting for R-MIGA A1000" option.

[Digiman]

MorphOS does not support all combinations of Mac PPC hardware but it didn't stop users registering it.

The people who own the 1% of all Macs ever made that are supported you mean?

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

[Digiman]

I would buy both OS4 and MOS for x86 if I could use them on one of the x86 systems I already own.  I would not buy a new x86 system for either operating system.

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redfox

My attitude too, has to be a better OS on the machine I want to use= problem

[Digiman]

The question isn't whether its realistic. I know its not, and admitted as much above.

The question is if you'd buy it

I know, so I added the post above relating to x86 OS4 purchase if I could

[Digiman]

I would only run RISC OS + Acorn Archimedes emulator on ARM CPU.

[Digiman]

Well let's assume a certain specification of hardware shall we? We don't need to support every PC out there, just a subset. This can be done by specifying supported hardware up front, and deviances aren't guaranteed to work.

In this case, how about targeting AMD's forthcoming Llano processor and surrounding platform?

i.e., 2, 3 or 4 x86-64 cores, 160,320 or 400 AMD/ATI Radeon 6xxx series shaders, UVD3 (video decode), AMD/ATI SB9xx southbridge features (USB3, USB2, SATA3, ...).

No, and I will stop you right there. Isolating sections of the x86 'standard' people own would be like making a fuel that only runs in 2% of cars on the road. Your example would not cater for 8/9 of my machines....all of which play 1080p video files so not exactly ancient.

This is why Windows needs about 1gb of drivers on DVDs, and that humongous registry file.