[News] AmigaOS 4.0 PPC will come !!! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 01-Apr-2001 06:43 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 29 comments View flat View list |
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 Takemehomegrandma on 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT | Sorry to hear that the Amiga OS 4 only will be PPC native. Wouldn't it be better if it was all VP native? I mean, now when the whole OS is going to be ported to a different processor than the old 68k (must be a giant effort), why limit the OS to ONE processor family, when it virtually could target every processor family out there?
It can't be more difficult to port the OS to VP than to PPC. Neither of them has any similarities to the 68k, so the difficulties ought to be just the same for both of them, right? |
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