Ben Hermans still staunchly against x86

[WolfToTheMoon]

From the interviews with the guy in charge of Hyperion, it seems that the X1000 is very much a vanity project, that he is hoping to break even on.

That would be Trevor Dickinson, one of the A-eon partners, not Hyperion.

Well, their(Hyperion, Hermans) stand against x86 is well known for years. I guess admitting defeat may be too much for some egos. Maybe ARM, but that is still a distant future (possibility?) for high-performance desktops.

[WolfToTheMoon]

I think the publicity of Commodore USA was more down to the word Amiga than OS4. And the utter BS from MR BS Altman over making new Amiga PCs

Well, hyperion and a-eon both announced very similar things... a new Amiga. the difference being is that C=USA has some marketing guys working for them and intends to make money and operate as a solvent entity, while Hyperion and a-eon seem to be running this more like a hobby project. All very IMHO.

[WolfToTheMoon]

I'm not for or against OS4/X1000 etc. at this point (I've never even used OS4), but the implication is that they will not be idle in future OS versions -- obviously.

I may have misunderstood them, but they didn't talk about SMP at amiwest. Only about "multicore support" in a sense that you could run OS4 on one and Linux on the other core. No info on just how they intend to achieve that.