| [News] Amiga announces the AmigaOne | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 21-Oct-2000 14:22 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 119 comments
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Amiga have just released this press release about the AmigaOne hardware spec. Eyetech will build the first actual boxes, which are Classic Amiga/AmigaOne hybrids (both A1200 and A4000-based models will be available) and will be based on PPC. They are scheduled for a Q1 2001 release. First stand-alone AmigaOnes should ship in Q3 2001. Also, the development of the Classic AmigaOS will continue with v3.9 coming out before Christmas.
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| Posted by Donovan Reeve on 24-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT | OK, since I'm desperate I am going to try again.
Fleecy, first of all I want to thank you for being willing to
answer some questions for us. It is very helpful and appreciated.
Someone seemed to think I was griping, which I wasn't. I guess
they didn't read my message very well. I did seem to lose you
though Fleecy, in my mile long message. Sorry about that.
I just wanted it understood that some of us actually need our
computers and when they die we can neither afford to wait a year
for a replacement nor to pay more than the cost of a new machine
of another platform to have them repaired.
I thought the Amiga DE was going to be at least somewhat hardware
independant? Or did I get the wrong idea. OK, if we can't run it
native on a PC, and we can't run it native on a Mac, what WILL
it run on? Only speciallized Amiga systems? Doesn't that defeat
the whole purpose?
Mind you, it won't bother me that much if it requires special
hardware if it is cool and reasonably priced, but I fail to see
then where the "write once, run anywhere" bit has much validity.
Or were you just refering to running it hosted? I thought that
it would run native on many types of hardware useing the processor-
specific run-modules under the DE and drivers for the other hardware?
If I'm all wet with my thinking, just say so. But was hoping that
now we Amigans could take advantage of the cheap hardware we can
buy from the local chain store or mail order. If we have to keep
buying hardware which is way more expensive than that for other platforms
the market will continue to dwindle untill we are all forced to
drop out whether we want to or not.
I need new hardware now, as mine is dying. No form of Amiga One
is ready yet, and the A4000/A1200 based units won't do me any good
as I have no viable A4000 or A1200 motherboards. I know I can host
the Amiga DE on a Linux machine, but I want to run Amiga native
when it is available that way and I cant afford to buy a Linux box
now and an Amiga One a few months later.
So, my question is... is there any intel or mac based setup which
I can currently purchase which will be able to run the Amiga DE
native when it is availailable in that format? Or is the Amiga One
the only hardware which will ever run the Amiga DE native?
Thankyou for your kind consideration,
Donovan Reeve (bubby@inebraska.com) |
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