| [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 redrumloa on 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 16 (Anonymous):
You are kidding right? PPC chips hit a road block last year, but that has been overcome and 1ghz chips are near. Besides igonore P4 so called clock speeds, p4 blows bull nuts. So the fastest x86 is Athlon 1.33ghz, and the fastest G4 is what now? 750? That will come closer to athlon chips soon. But once again, you must ignore simply the clock speed. A 900mhz Athlon is faster in most situations than a 1.5ghz P4, what does that tell you? I forget the stats, but I remember reading that PPC chips fare even better. Actually anything arround 1ghz or up is insane anyways! Most users with a 1Ghz+ CPU never use that power. CPUs are so fast nowadys that even the highest end games a 800mhz cpu is all that's needed, the gfx card becomes the bottleneck..Yes even a geforce2 Ultra is the bottleneck.
So I hope you are joking, I mean yeesh, you running a render farm or something?
Regaards,
Jim |
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