Subj : OS 5 ?
To   : DENNIS SMITH
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Mon Oct 09 2006 14:47:04

Hello DENNIS!

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

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

i save this :-)

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

where ?

 DS> <-quote from final questions:

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

what about servers then ? :-)

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

that statement is just fun to follow :-)
 
 DS> and that you'd have to wait for OS5 to run AmigaOS on x86.

why wait ?

 DS> One of the Frieden brothers estimated that a port to x86 could be done in 
 DS> 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

 DS> and it would solve the hardware availability issues permanently.

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

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

i belive there is none

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

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

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

problem is that this firm is not even here on amiga

 DS> <-/Unquote

:)

 DS> He should run for governor of Michigan! 


 Regards Benny

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