| [Rant] HP bound to quit PA-RISC CPU line | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 30-Aug-2001 06:25 GMT by Christian Kemp | 17 comments
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Solar (BAUD) wrote:
The PIV message posted earlier initiated some interesting comments, so I think this one can be just as interesting: HP dropping PA-RISC in favour of IA64 by 2004.
From www.heise.de:
"Continuing development of the RISC CPUs keeps getting more and more difficult and expensive, while Itanium is just beginning it´s lifetime cycle", Brown [Market Communications Manager HP] backs up the HP decission. Moreover, so Brown, Itanium systems will get cheaper simply because of higher production numbers, as opposed to house-made PA-RISCs.
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| Comment 1 | m0ns00n | | 29-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT |
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| HP bound to quit PA-RISC CPU line : Comment 2 of 17 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Solar (BAUD) on 29-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 1 (m0ns00n):
Amithlon? Naa... It´s an "intermediate", just like UAE is but for a slightly different target market. It´s about running the "Classic" stuff until the "new" stuff finally becomes available. (And no, I don´t think native x86 plugins should be supported by Amithlon, because developers might lose their focus on OS 4/5 and instead create yet another spin-off. A real fast 68k emulation should be enough until OS 5.)
OS development is done on the OS 4/5 road. Amithlon cannot go there, and I think that´s A Good Thing (tm) because people won´t be lured into seeing Amithlon as a seperate development.
What troubles me, though, is the lack of any clear commitment from Amiga Inc. regarding a hardware independant, PPC/x86 supporting, desktop OS 5. They keep telling about the AmigaDE running everywhere, and AmigaOS 4/5 being the perfect host, but I want to replace Windows and Linux on my box with AmigaOS, and while Gary said this would be possible a while back, he´s a little more hesistant today.
Ah, well. |
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