@stefcep2
stefcep2 wrote:
But no, he's then attacked for being too tight-arsed to support the developers that have worked so hard to release this.
I can see to an extent where you are coming from but no one attacked him for not supporting the MOS developers. The point was that he was saying it was overpriced next to OSX and he wanted a justification of why. He should have realized he was answering his own question when he pointed out that MOS is a luxury item. With him knowing that from the start it was pretty non-sensical to compare its price next to a fully practical product like OSX. Thats not to say that MOS has no practicality but its certainly not a fair comparison overall. Not just because of what either OS might do in the way of applications but in simple economoies of scale that a huge company such as Apple that trades at like $180US a share can do and the obvious difference in 3rd party application development that either situation would bring. You simply don't need a MOS application list in front of you to know this is a silly comparison to make.
If we want to make a fairer comparison lets take a luxury item OS against the same. Something like SkyOS. One could make arguements for or against SkyOS being a better value at 29 Euro. But at least we are comparing two small non-mainstream hobbyist commercial operating systems and their value as such.
Another guy more or less raises the same question, no-one answers and he therefore reasonably concludes that if no software runs on it, then its too expensive for him to spend that sort of money on hardware and an OS that doesn't run any software.
Re-read his posts. He actually stated he had less of a personal need for it because of him already owning classic Amiga hardware and software, reducing his need for another product that could provide the same. This means he actually had knowledge on some of its capabilities. Already owning such hardware costs him nothing now. But lets make a fairer comparison. Lets take someone with NO amiga hardware at all. Which is the cheaper path to use old Amiga applications? A quick look at ebay will teach someone very quickly how expensive classic 20 year old amiga hardware is, often sold AS-IS due to is venerable age. As a good example, recently their was a board with a broken memory slot going for a premium with cardboard stuffed in the slot to hold the memory in. Ancient PPC add-in cards have been fetching $1500 to $2000 in a bid for a chance to run AOS 4.0 (on the slowest hardware one can mind you). Now in that comparison MOS is not looking nearly as expensive running on brand new, relatively cheap Efika hardware.
The obvious thing would have been for people like you to enlighten us both with your knowledge of what, exactly, runs on it.
You are making incorrect assumptions as to my background. I don't have much practical MOS experience at all. I had a friend in high school who had an Amiga. At the time it blew away the graphics of my PC. Many years later I stumbled on a video of Amiga OS 4.0. I was amazed at how quick and responsive its GUI was, and how well it seemed to handle multimedia. Being in the IT field and sick to death of dealing with Windows issues for my job I found the idea of such a machine for some personal computing to be a fun idea. Unfortunately AmigaOnes were overpriced for me and their breakage rate was scarey. When I finally heard about MOS, sometime later, I figured I'd keep my eyes open for its custom hardware, since it had similar goals in this vein of "doing more with less". A used Peg came up in my price range some months back. I've had too many personal and business obligations going on in general since to have given much of any time to it. Hearing of the 2.0 release re-sparked my interest. So I was not being snotty and withholding any info.
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