On 24-Sep-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It just depends who your targeting. The 1% "other" > category or everybody else. > It's not about which is better, but which is actually > being used. > I remember drooling over an Atari 800 with a whopping > 8k of RAM (expandable to 16k if you had the extra > $400.)with a casette deck for a drive, but couldn't > afford it. Same story with the first Mac's. Ended up > going the clone route like everybody else. Even > Amiga's looked nice, but just didn't have the status > quo. > When was the last time you walked into a computer shop > and saw folks bying Amigas and Ataris? Or more > importantly, software for them? > Gotta go with the status quo. That is, if your in the > business of selling your scripts. If not, then who > cares. Put it on EPOC32... whatever the hell that is. That's an attitude that might make sense if you believe the future will just be like the present, and I'd probably agree with you if the roads were still full of black Model Ts, but they're not and so I won't. I don't see a future with just a few OSs having 90% of the market, but dozens of them and in every device imaginable. And of course, they'll all be chattering to each other over the Net. This is why cross-platform matters. The future is probably no OS with more than 20% of the market - when you include phones in the market... Like you I also drooled over an Atari 800, but bought a ZX81 instead. Had two Commodore 64s since then, three Amigas... And you know what? I'm sick of leaving my programs behind with each change of platform, or having them become useless because of an OS upgrade. I'm also sick of having to learn new programming languages with every switch of platform. REBOL's probably a nice language, (give me time:), but if it wasn't cross-platform I wouldn't be here. As to EPOC32, it's the Psions's OS. See... http://www.psion.com/ They look kinda nice and kinda fun and are apparently quite popular. Give me a good reason why they should be ignored?
