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! :)   
       
   <-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. 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?   
      
   BM>> 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.   
   <-/Unquote   
      
   He should run for governor of Michigan!    
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