| [News] Executive Update - St. Louis and Beyond | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 06-Feb-2001 22:33 GMT by Christian Kemp | 34 comments
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There's a new executive update available at Amiga. Bill McEwen says Contrary to the rumors and what many people are saying about our demise, or that we are going to have the same fate of the others before us, we have a big surprise for all of them, and promises that all will be known in six weeks at the St. Louis show.
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| Posted by Martin Baute on 07-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (Colin Wilson):
Erm, in fact this _is_ a problem. Remember when Apple denied Be the information on their G4 machines? Be couldn´t support the G4 architecture.
There´s more than being able to run on the target _CPU_ - I am confident that the Tao stuff runs on the PPC allright. But, to support the _machine_ (as in PowerMac *whateverthosenumbersmean*, Cube etc.), you have to have information about the _architecture_, like chipset, interrupt handling etc. This is done by the PII layer of the Tao system; and I seriously doubt that Jobs gave his thumbs up on an Apple PII. And without the OK from Apple, any hacked-together PII would be reverse-engineering, and as such an infringement in copyright.
Then again, I might be wrong on all this. Go ask Tao and Apple. ;-)
On a different note (in reply to post #12, to be exact): I am ashamed that people like you call themselves Amigians, too. It´s stupid enough to hop up and down chanting "aMiGa RuLeZ" and stuff like that, but your last line makes me feel really sick.
To end this post with something more cheerful: Amiga Inc. is now in business for a little over a year. When EsCom was in charge, a year was what it took them to present the ridiculous Walker design (and going bankrupt). When Gateway was in charge, a year was what it took them to present their QNX concept.
I feel that Bill and staff are taking big strides towards their goal. I hope they don´t get lost, and that they find enough supply on the road as they go.
My best wishes to them. As an IT professional, I would like to see an alternative to Windows (monopoly, monoculture, get-me-money-fast-but-don´t-ask-for-value), Linux (if people can understand it, it has too few options), and Apple (which, as a system, is so great and successful they even have MS Office, MS Internet Explorer and MS Outlook. Cool.).
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