Hi all,

It's here lately:

http://www.templeoftech.com/viewarticlepage.cka?articleid=62&pageid=1

I don't even have a decent final copy of OS4 and BW is blowing a lot of wind about Amiga OS 5. I apologize for the windy day! :)

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There has been a lot of debate in the Amiga community, in the last couple
of years, about the choice to make OS4 for PPC. After Apple switched to x86, the PPC is dead as a desktop CPU. Yet in the 25 questions you said that OS4 would never move away from PPC, and that you'd have to wait for OS5 to run AmigaOS on x86. One of the Frieden brothers estimated that a port to x86
could be done in only a few months (twice the time to port to a new PPC platform), and it would solve the hardware availability issues permanently. Given those facts, what's the reasoning behind the decision to stay with the PPC?

The Cell processor is used by Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii (stupid name

by the way), and Playstation 3. There are numerous other high end graphics
and
multi-media devices coming out in the coming months that use Cell, and Cell
is
PPC. There is a great deal of opportunity staying with PPC and expect that with
the conversations that we have had with Freescale, and IBM, that there are several OEM's that are interested in what we have planned as well.
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He should run for governor of Michigan!
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Hello DENNIS!

08 Oct 06 15:59, DENNIS SMITH wrote to All:

http://www.templeoftech.com/viewarticlepage.cka?articleid=62&pageid=1

i save this :-)

I don't even have a decent final copy of OS4 and BW is blowing a lot
of wind about Amiga OS 5. I apologize for the windy day! :)

where ?

<-quote from final questions:

There has been a lot of debate in the Amiga community, in the last
couple of years, about the choice to make OS4 for PPC. After Apple switched to x86, the PPC is dead as a desktop CPU.

what about servers then ? :-)

Yet in the 25 questions you said that OS4 would never move away from PPC,

that statement is just fun to follow :-)

and that you'd have to wait for OS5 to run AmigaOS on x86.

why wait ?

One of the Frieden brothers estimated that a port to x86 could be done in only a few months (twice the time to port to a new PPC platform),

it might not be a bad ppc that delays it, more that x86 is more availble

and it would solve the hardware availability issues permanently.

i remember bill gates say something like that when 32bit was new in dos

Given those facts, what's the reasoning behind the decision to stay with the PPC?

i belive there is none

The Cell processor is used by Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii (stupid name
by the way), and Playstation 3. There are numerous other high end graphics and multi-media devices coming out in the coming months that use Cell, and Cell is PPC.

cellphones with java, could be nice with amiga not anywhere :-)

There is a great deal of opportunity staying with
PPC and expect that with the conversations that we have had with Freescale, and IBM, that there are several OEM's that are interested in what we have planned as well.

problem is that this firm is not even here on amiga

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:)

He should run for governor of Michigan!

Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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On 10/9/2006 2:45 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote to DENNIS SMITH:

Hello DENNIS!

08 Oct 06 15:59, DENNIS SMITH wrote to All:

http://www.templeoftech.com/viewarticlepage.cka?

articleid=62&pageid=1

i save this :-)

Cool!

There has been a lot of debate in the Amiga community, in the last couple of years, about the choice to make OS4 for PPC. After Apple switched to x86, the PPC is dead as a desktop CPU.

what about servers then ? :-)

Probably X11-OS4!

Yet in the 25 questions you said that OS4 would never move away

from PPC,

that statement is just fun to follow :-)

The man has become a 'let down'. Amiga Inc. would be better off with you or
me as CEO!

I installed these prorams the other day from:
Cygnix:
http://www.schwan-clan.de

Gimp, Vim, Cinepaint and the XFCE desktop. X11 is not a bad default system!
:)

Dennis
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