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Wired's 2004 Vaporware Awards

Posted by michael on from the real-soon-now dept.

l3pYr writes "Based on user submissions, Wired Magazine has posted its 2004 Vaporware Awards. Duke Nukem Forever has garnered the 'Lifetime Achievement Award,' so it doesn't - officially - make the list. Some of the lucky winners this year are: Alienware, Valve, Microsoft, Apple and TiVo."

3 of 406 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Where? by crow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oh, boy, did I ever want one of those.

    If you look very closely at some of the photos in Creative Computing or Compute! you'll see that the alleged 1450XLD had a nameplate on it calling it a 1250XLD. My guess is that there was another earlier project that was canceled, and since they didn't have any of the new ones ready, they used photos of the old one.

    Apparently there were a few 1400XLs that got out, but there's as rare as an 815.

  2. What is the min delay for vaporware? by shawn(at)fsu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    #10 lists the product from Alienware that was supposed to be delivered in Q4 2004 (If I read it right). My question is this: How long must something be delayed to be considered vaporware? Obviously products like Duke Nukem and the Phantom qualify but what is the minimum amount of time needed?

    Even if I was mistaken on #10 I still would like to hear what you all think.

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  3. Re:My favorite piece of vaporware is GNU/HURD by uebermts · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, HURD is about to reach V1.0 ... in the meantime, Linus wrote some other OS:

    ===
    From: torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
    Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
    Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT

    [...]
    I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be
    out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
    minix.
    [...]
    ===

    http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.mini x/ msg/2194d253268b0a1b