| [News] New Executive Update | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 25-Nov-2000 13:35 GMT by Christian Kemp | 64 comments
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Bill McEwen has posted a new Executive Update, where he hints that there might be a strong possibility of an AmigaOS 4.0, if sales of 3.9 are good enough, and announces that there will be more details and announcements at the Amiga World show in Cologne next month.
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| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 24-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 19 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
Personally, I don't want to get involved in the argument, given that I'll probably never bother with 3.5 or 3.9 (at least until the day when I find a PPC card at a hamfest for $5 ;))... and I'm actually impressed that Amiga Inc. is managing to offer anything in that regard...
But I do hate to see misinformation spread, and so I'll dive in here and point out that "DivX ;-)" (which does appear to be the full official name) is NOT a proprietary Microsoft product, but rather a project run by some hackers from lord-knows-where. I'm led to understand that the whole thing is an open source (GPL?) project; unfortunately, the "official" sites (http://divx.ctw.cc/ and http://www.projectmayo.com/) are so damn sketchy that I can't confirm this wholeheartedly. Anyhow, it's all based off the MPEG4 standard, which certainly isn't Microsoft's IP. :)
Perhaps someone's thinking of the ill-fated DIVX platform, which was basically a simple (and some would say, crippled) variant on the DVD platform, or maybe Microsoft's proprietary ASF format for Windows Media Player video? (Which, I must admit, is the only thing I've seen that can put vaguely-tolerable video on a Pentium 75 in a reasonable period of time with a dialup connection...) Or maybe someone's just burning a phatty 10-rock? :)
-Joe "Floid" Kanowitz
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