| [News] AmigaOS 4.0 PPC will come !!! | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 01-Apr-2001 06:43 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 29 comments
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From the shoucast audio stream (right now) AmigaDE won't have MP soon. AmigaOS 4.0 will and AmigaDE will use it. 68K will run on emulation. TCPIP PPC native, video drivers Natice: All the system PPC native. It will be developed by haage & partner and Hyperion.
Amigaone will be opendesign (drivers). The timeline is by summer time. You need Amigaone for AmigaOS 4.0. USB and firewire will be in AmigaOS 4.2. No Java in AmigaOS 4.0. AmigaOne will ship this summer. First versions won't surpport multiprocessor. AmigaDE Targeted late summer.
This is what I understood. There can be some misunderstandings. The are a lot of questions left. The MP subject is not clear, there will be a gradual transition (4, 4.2 ... 5.0). More info will be available on the Amiga website soon.
So 1rst AmigaOS 3.9 will benefits from the AmigaOne hardware, then AmigaOS 4.0 will run stand alone on the AmigaOne and then Amiga De will run on top of it.
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| Comment 1 | redrumloa | | 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | fleecy moss | | 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Fredrik Zetterlund | | 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Anonymous | | 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 5 | Troels ersking | | 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 6 | Don Cox | | 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 7 | Martin Baute | | 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 8 | Anonymous | | 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 9 | fleecy moss | | 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 10 | Rik Sweeney | | 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT |
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| Posted by fleecy moss on 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (Troels ersking):
>I really don't know what to think about this. Its great that we will have "our >own" OS3.9 updated, but on the other hand I don't see this potential grow (in >the userbase) that AmigaDE promised. It also finally seems Amiga admits that >AmigaDE is NOT a desktop OS.
Hey Troels 8-)
The AmigaDE is a content environment - it will appear everywhere that people
want to produce and consume content, and it provides a universal environment in which that can occur, cell phones, PDAs (our sharp deal is a long term deal so whilst this is only for one announced PDA, the deal doesn't just cover that), STBs, consoles and on desktops, workstations and servers.
One of the problems that has become apparent is that the majority of the world will stick with Windows, and isn't looking to have to install and learn a whole new system. The AmigaDE at this level should thus be looked at as a value add to other systems, whether they be Linux, Windows, Mac, AmigaOS or whatever. It will integrate tightly with whatever software host it finds and provide an
Amiga Content Environment.
We lay our product in other product's nests 8-)
>Biggest problem is how the X86 platform is supported now?
>Its 90% off all computers that are x86 based and that is what I liked so much >about AmigaDE as a desktop OS/OE/DE. I really hoped we could grab a percent or >two of the x86 market.
>What I hope for now is that AmigaOS4.X will be based on AROS which should be >easily portable from X86 to (for exaple) PPC. This would still allow people to >take advantage of the cheap PC hardware, or the AmigaONE from eyetech if thats >what they want. Offcourse a re-compile of programs would be needed if they >should be available on both PPC & X86 platforms, but another option would be >to built AmigaDE inside AmigaOS so some functions could be totally multi >processor.
The point of AmigaOS4 is that we Amiga needs a complete solution, and the home
server is an essential part of that - home server sales are predicted to go through the roof in the next few years, and there is no solution out there that can offer what is required - kernel level QoS, multipath multiprotocol delivery - that is where the AmigaOS is going with AmigaOS5. With the AmigaDE highly integrated, those who want an Amiga desktop can have one but it in no way restricts us from taking advantage of other platforms, products and opportunities.
The future is the content market - phones, digital assistants etc - the home server will expand that by making the webpad concept that has failed so spectacularly suddenly have the backbone it needs to succeed. Those who think we are off on a mission to replace Windows are greatly mistaken - the AmigaOS
can become another platform and will have the functionality, both native and via
the AmigaDE to provide that, but that is upto users and developers who chose to work in that direction. In doing so, they will limit themselves to the AmigaOS whereas the AmigaDE will be everywhere, but we will support and push the AmigaOS
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