| [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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| AmigaOS 4.0 PPC will come !!! : Comment 25 of 29 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Bill Toner on 31-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 22 (Martin Baute):
> I buy a PPC system, Amiga Inc. doesn´t survive, what do I have? Dead hardware,
> because I am not interested in Linux PPC or Mac OS (the latter won´t run on the
> Amiga One probably).
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> I buy a x86 system, Amiga Inc. doesn´t survive, what do I have? A hardware I
> can use for Windows, Linux, QNX, BeOS, AROS, whatever, or sell it to some
> other guy. (Try selling an Amiga One.)
So, how is this any different than the last 9 years?
Personally I'm very very happy with this. I can choose which PPC chip I want via
the ZIF/carrier slot. Current high-end PPC chips can actually compete with current high-end
x86 chips in terms of what it's actually capable of (MIPS and MHz aren't particularly meaningful)
Altivec is much better implemented than any MMX/SIMD crap in Intel land.
So you can't do Windows, so what? I see that as an attractive feature... |
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