[News] Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Nov-2001 20:45 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 194 comments View flat View list |
Christoph Gutjahr interviewed Hyperion about AmigaOS 4.0.
You can read the interview on amiga-news.de in English or in German.
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Posted by Bogus Realname on 09-Nov-2001 16:06 GMT | Ok I'll tell you now the secret of PPC Amiga platform (from my point of view):
* PPC was always the next step up from 68k since 1995
* There is already quite a number of PPC software
* Amiga software/HW developers support PPC, because it is a (comfortable) niche
* PPC has a better design than x86 and with GHz G4 or G5 there should be enough
power to compete with x86
* Amiga HW manufacturer has control about the hardware (e.g. implementing or
deleting certain features) and has a direct connection to Amiga customers.
As I stated in another posting, it is very strange there had been no decent
K7 chipset apart from AMD's own, and although the bus architecture is good
for SMP, only now there are some (Tyan) boards available - finally
* With bulk production the prices should come down to an acceptable level.
* Not everyone has x86 yet (I for my part have not)
* Not everyone ultimately goes for fast & cheap -> Apple
* An own Amiga PPC platform could give a certain feeling of pride or identity
* Don't forget how Wintel spyed on you with WinXP registration bullshit, NSAkey,
Pentium3 indentify number etc. ;-)
* And for the die-hards...x86 is no Amiga!!! |
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