Interview with Trevor Dickinson

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And what does A-Eon get out of your imaginary deal here?

And BTW its $245160 USD at current exchange rates.  The article said 200,000 EURO.

I think we all know A-Eon has about a snowball's chance in hell to "break even" on $245160 USD (and counting).  But whats the point about imagining about them giving the money away on purpose?

And why such a slave to the brand?  Run AROS if you want x86.

He does run Aros.  
http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?start=0&topic_id=4758&viewmode=flat&order=ASC

 What makes you think he's a slave to the brand ... just because he thinks A-eon has a crap business model? ...

1. Throw money at it.
2. ??
3. profit!

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I thought Gallium3d supported shaders.    which would mean hopefully so does Aros. :-D

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When that part of AROS is bug free, we will see a neat step forward in Amiga like OS development. Which is why I didn't totally discount AROS. But the current releases are way too buggy.

I have one PC with an Nvidia 7600GT video card that I have Multiple variants of AROS on.

But I use an Apple with MorphOS on it because it is stable.

And I have multiple PCs with various versions of Windows because there is software I just can't get in the Amiga community.

Right now, with OpenGL support, both AROS and MorphOS seem to offer superior 2d and 3d functions (compared to AOS3.x and AOS4.x).

But, since GPU manufactures are very tight lipped about there architectures, we have a long way to go to match Windows graphics power (which, btw, so does OSX).

I wouldn't say it's bug free but it is very stable on my box. :-D

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Depending on the area you are looking at, it already has (in HPC, for example, linux is so far past the post, barely anybody else gets a look in. Just check out the top 500 by OS).

However, you simply cannot compare linux v windows/osx, each of which has literally many millions of home and business users with this situation. You are talking several orders of magnitude fewer users on amiga for a start, let alone "next gen" amiga systems.

If OS4/MOS moved to x86, they'd be up against all the challenges that AROS has faced during it's development. Only by then, AROS itself will likely have overcome some of them.

So, who in their right mind would pay for an x86 version of OS4/MOS when they could get a free OS (which would by then be the more capable system on the target hardware)? Nobody but the most die-hard users in each camp, which probably runs into dozens each.

But Aros' code is apl'd so all the technical advances it makes could be used by Morphos and AOS.  

So they would gain Aros' advances plus have the advantage of having many features that are more mature then Aros.