Interview with A-Eon's Trevor Dickinson

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The problem is that only high priced hardware is produced. And don't suggest sam as entry level because it isn't.

That is what A-EON decided to do. And what is an entry level by price performance if it isn`t SAM 440 knowing OS alone is about 100 euros?

[vox]

I can only imagine how "happy" ACube was when they heard that
another hardware manufacturer was entering tiny tiny market ...

They well divided the market segments, and its good - way better high end then SAM 460.

[vox]

Oh no, he's the devil incarnate.  How dare he fund the best coders our community had to write a modern OS for us and on top of that fund the development of quality hardware at decent prices.  The icing on the cake that proves he is indeed Satan is that he even gave away hardware for free to developers.

The very cheek of the man. How dare he indeed?

Please remind me of this case.

[vox]

The blame for that lies squarely at the feet of Bill McEwen and Ben Hermans.

MorphOS could have been Amiga OS4 back in 2000 and there would have been no split, the Q/Box would probably have been a fully functioning OS by now and a transition to commodity x86 hardware may have come about.

We will never know now due to the greed and incompetence of those two men.

All in my not so humble opinion of course.

MorphOS has not been the chosen one, which could skip a lot of good work (like AOS4 is not yet MUI4 ... just as an example. As well as I do like reggae as sound interfrace and those butterflies). It has its shots, software depot, discussion zone, free to try version (great one!, once again consider SAMs and X1000 before going to x86) ... PPC apps since
2000 http://mos.aminet.net/search?arch[]=ppc-morphos&sort=date

... but there is no crying over What IF

I am looking forward to see next MorphOS, it would be great if I could run it

[vox]

What PPC have enough power?

I think PPC is dead end and stays dead end. There will be no growth with PPC, no new users and no future.

Somehow they keep diging CPUs. And they are not bad at all, take away consideration that you probably have stronger x86 already, or if you need one, you can go to the local store.