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Posts: 524 from 2003/11/25
From: Belgrade
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Andreas_Wolf wrote:
A-EON wanted it that way, and usually anyway, the hardware manufacturers themselves provide all the drivers that go beyond the bare essentials of the OS. The only exception was the network driver [...].
This would be logical and big market, but even there M$ as example, does some generic drivers.
Catch22 is: how is HW developer (Mai logic, AEON, Apple ...) going to develop drivers for such a niche market that has interest to use the HW, not other way around?
Where can one hire OS4 developers outside Hyperion and friends? Even if HW company would accept it.
And from user perspective who is to blame? Is AEON responsibile for lack of 3D with my default RadeonHD on x1000, no onboard ethernet, no dual core and above 2GB use? Or Hyperion?
As X1000 case shows, its in practice, outsourced job with dubious results and copyright in the end. And painstake in OS4 development.
Tabor is now just another showcase. But dont forget e.g. Warp3D drivers for Radeons 4000-6870
(default SAM and X1000 gfx cards) or SAM460 onboard SATA DMA driver, that never came to be.
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amigadave wrote:
Such a group of users might go a step further and try to raise money for paid advertisement space on websites and in magazines.
MorphOS could benefit from MacPPC usability, and such effort would be nice.
More so, once x86 version comes out.
[ Edited by vox 27.08.2019 - 12:24 ]------------------------------------------
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