[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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Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion : Comment 194 of 194 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Anonymous on 10-Nov-2001 00:33 GMT | In reply to Comment 192 (smithy): >>* PPC was always the next step up from 68k since 1995
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>You mean 'in' 1995. This means we are dealing with 6-year old thinking and a
>6-year old business plan. The computing market 6 years ago was a different
>
Escom, Phase5, Petro/Torre-Gateway and AInc were all for going PPC (and you
have no endian problems).
I have to admit, since Apple killed off the clone market, MS killed NT for PPC
and a CHRP with an alternative OS was not available, the PPC movement lost a
big part of its momentum. The last years the PPC was stuck to low MHz numbers
and isolated in the Mac corner.
But now we see GHz and 64Bit PPC and with bplan (I think they have the cleaner
and more appealing design) there is a company that could drag PPC and CHRP
back in spotlight, where it belongs.
If this will stir public interest in PPC and finally generate a viable, open
alternative platform to the x86 world it remains to be seen - but at least they
deserve a chance and I am willing to support that.
>
>>* Amiga HW manufacturer has control about the hardware (e.g. implementing or
>>deleting certain features) and has a direct connection to Amiga customers.
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>Ahh, but this isn't quite true. We can turn Mr Hermans arguments about competing
>with the big boys around on him when it comes to hardware. As I understand it
>AmigaOne will have standard hardware - i.e. PCI slots, etc... So what's to stop
>AmigaOne owners buying the cheaper PC hardware instead of an Amiga hardware maker's
>hardware? Do only software makers matter to Mr Hermans and not hardware makers?
>Why does he use software as an argument and not hardware? Is it because he runs a
>software company himself?
>
I think it is indeed because he leads a software company. But then there is consensus
within the Amiga community, that modularity (PCI) is a good thing and the next step
in Commodore Amiga history would have been to scrap Zorro4 and implement PCI (if you
trust the word of Dave Haynie). Now, there was one big effort to design a nextgen
custom chip for the Amiga market - but it was a flop (Caipirinha).
I think there are not many companies left, that _could_ develop something own and
bring it to the market - maybe DCE or Elbox (or Eyetech and Merlancia?).
I would like you to look at the PPC/PCI solutions as a try to buildup a nice, own HW
platform. If this does not work out...scrap it - Amithlon is the stopgap solution and
then we will have the "cplan": a x86 OS. :-) |
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