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Re: Ben Hermans still staunchly against x86
« on: November 02, 2010, 09:45:02 AM »
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Meanwhile, in the real world, the idea that actually anyone else outside the very small and tight amigaworld.net/amigans.net circle *would even consider* chipping up a staggering UKP 1,500++/USD 2,400++/EUR 1,700++ (ANYONE AT ALL!!) for this kind of unproven, 2007 level performance HW, that has no other benefit than being able to run a "gimmick" (to anyone else but the above mentioned tight circle) OS4, is nothing short of ridiculous.


I don't imagine people outside the amiga community buying the X1000 either. Sadly, the real world exists outside this community all together. Spending money, any money, on amiga stuff - especially "next gen" is nothing short of ridiculous to people that aren't already fans. What, you think that absolutely anybody outside the amiga community, is going to go on ebay to buy an obsolete mac, no matter how cheap to procure, spend 100 euros kitting it out with an OS they've never heard of that, for all it's maturity in amiga circles, is eclipsed by completely free operating systems in any area they are likely to care about?
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Re: Ben Hermans still staunchly against x86
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2010, 08:54:13 PM »
As an aside, hands up everybody here that would actually buy an x86 version of AmigaOS considering AROS is already on x86 and is completely free?
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Re: Ben Hermans still staunchly against x86
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2010, 09:59:20 PM »
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You can lose "an x86 version of", and still ask :-/


I dunno, does AROS PPC run legacy 68K (and some legacy PPC) executables?
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Re: Ben Hermans still staunchly against x86
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2010, 12:15:41 AM »
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@ Karlos

[Raises hand.]

AROS might be free and it has come a long way, but it still needs a lot of polishing. The kind of polishing that would have likely happened if it were a professionally supported OS.


Is this on the presumption that this theoretical AmigaOS4.x x86 would have all the features it does now, but runs on x86?

I would suggest that this wouldn't be the case. You'd likely get a version which would have no more support for 68K apps than AROS does now (via UAE) and may not support PPC apps (including some written for 4.x PPC if not still actively developed) at all.
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