AmigaOS 4.0 makes Wired News!

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No, actually Beta versions have been shown and are distributed to the beta testers a long time ago.

Not that it matters, but out of curiosity, how can you tell apart a demoed alpha or beta version?

Learning from past threads, it seems OS4 betatester team has a pretty much different definition of "beta" than the rest of the world.

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by MagicSN on 2004/1/21 9:57:08

Added to this: I find it strange that something what obviously exists can be called Vaporware. Vaporware is "just hot air", meaning it does not exist (though OS 4 is not the only thing wrongly on the list, it seems... I guess Halflife 2 also really exists in some at least already playable version, hehehe )

Steffen

You'd then better read their official definition of Vaporware over at Wired. By Wired standards, OS4 is still Vaporware.

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[From the Rant] Claiming AmigaOS4.0 vaporware is easy, but I can assure you it exists ("Vaporware: Nuke 'Em if Ya Got 'Em," Jan. 20, 2004). I belong to the development crew and it's running fine on both a classic Amiga 4000/PPC and a new AmigaOne here.

Another nominee for the "I haven't read the definiton" award.

[From Wired] As in previous years, software in a never-ending, pre-release, beta-testing stage is considered vaporware, even if it's widely available. It hasn't shipped until it's shrink-wrapped.

Likewise hardware. Prototypes may exist in some company's lab, but it's vaporware until it hits store shelves.

And remember, if it shipped -- even if it stank -- it's not vaporware.

[From the rant]  Neither Amiga nor Hyperion Software (who is in fact developing AmigaOS4) is claiming any release dates, by the way. There were some estimates ages ago, but since then all they say is "when it's done."

Irrevelant.


And the best:

They are known to spread FUD all over the place and I'd expect a serious news site would probably claim to be to be a bit more precious about such things.

But it won't mean automatically that Nate's comment is FUD.