| [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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| Posted by Marco Ridoni on 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT | Certainly all of this sounds as good news, but still I feel a bit uncomfortable with it. I mean: for several months we were promised a new environment, with "compile once/run everywhere" capabilities; now it comes out that it will "only" be a layer on other OS's , including a new and improved AmigaOS. Ok, fine, I know that the future belongs to PDA's (in the literal sense of the term, not in the sense of a Palm or a PocketPC or whatever), that all our houses will be strangled with cables running from the DVD to the fridge to a personal holodeck and that the DE environment is the right answer to a more mature digital world. The problem is that, IMHO, we're falling back to a niche made of incompatible and pricey hardware. I don't want to discuss if a G4 is superior or inferior to a PIV; it's a false problem (BTW both of them have enough CPU power to cover everyone's average - or not even so average - computing needs); the fact is that the days of custom hardware are over for good. Apple can continue to sell its G4s because they estabilished a loyal userbase (mostly in a niche market like DTP and multimedia production) early on.
Also Amiga has a loyal userbase, but it's shrinking every day more and more and simply I fail to see how a new Amiga custom hardware can attract new users.
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