[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 35 of 194 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Harry Kok on 08-Nov-2001 05:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 33 (Ruben Monteiro): No, you can not have it both ways.
Either you're gonna go the specific hardware route,
or the 'We support everyting that's out there" route.
-windows-
And the ppc itself doesn't have to be that expensive.
You would just need high production numbers to
recoup the development cost of a new mainboard.
Remember that the amiga is based on the 68000, at that
time considered an 'elite' processor.
What would the amiga have been like if they had gone
for the (cheaper) x86 route in the first place?
Segmented adressing, 1Meg hurdle, 16->32 bit transition,
an instruction-set from the early 1970's which is
highly unsuitable for parallel execution, wrong endianess
lots of redundancy. Even the 8086 itself isn't 'clean',
but a kludged-up 4004.
And you want to go x86 now?
'Warning, you cannot get back what you throw away, continue?'
'Warning, intel and AMD are battling'
'Warning, endianess'
'Warning, microsoft'
'Warning, not a really different machine' |
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