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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