@BigBenAussie
Problem is atleast some of these "companies" (one just can't take them
serious) have allready prooven to be daft beyond believe ...
But to answer the qusetion at hand:
OS4 is clearly released in "aplha", so one could say it's getting
further and further away (since it is a date in the past), wether it
is also in "beta" is a question on how you define beta.
Some say "beta" is something that has all mayor features and only a
relative low number of bugs&quirks to be resolved.
Other will happiely use beta for everything that just works somehow on
a basic list of functionality.
OS4 would tend to be more in the 2nd group.
Even "OS4-final" is something that would very much rely on everybodies
definition, and in my opinion a final version of any (Amiga)OS should
atleast have:
- fast 68k-EMU (JIT) or enough native SW not to use ANY 68k AT ALL
(which is offcourse quite unrealistic with the remaining
developer-base).
- 2D/3D support for current GFX-cards
- USB-support, includeing scanners, kbd/mouse/joypad, masstorage etc.
- a printing system that allows the user to get a quality thats o.k.
for the printer used (3.x drivers need not apply)
And a whole lot of other thinks....
Or in other words, not this year.
