[Rant] AmigaOS + POP/PPC petition official web site | ANN.lu |
Posted on 06-Jun-2002 04:30 GMT by Seehund | 280 comments View flat View list |
AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk is finally online!
Here you'll hopefully find all information you could possibly want about the "AmigaOS distribution policies and POP/PPC hardware petition". I hope the background information and FAQ will be especially helpful to clear up any confusion surrounding these issues.
If you have not yet signed the petition, then please do so now! Please help spreading the word by linking to AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk. It's not too late to save our favourite OS and a unified POP-based hardware market!
In other news, I have finally managed to get in touch with the PetitionOnline.com administrators. The few abuse and sabotage attempts so far have been removed from the signatory listings. Not that any garbage would ever reach the recipient of our petition, but I understand some thought that it didn't look too good...
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AmigaOS + POP/PPC petition official web site : Comment 58 of 280 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 06-Jun-2002 09:24 GMT | In reply to Comment 48 (Tbone): >Eyetech/Amiga haven't promoted the technology of the POP platform at all, if >you'd care to ask MAI, all the advancements in POP architecture (the chipsets) >were developed indipendantly of Amiga/Eyetech, and wern't influenced by Amiga at >all, both were already available/in development before Eyetech decided to use >them. neither chipset ever even anticipated being used in an Amiga, by it's >manufacturers.
Facts please!
MAI's excellent technology was intended not for POP but for embedded systems running three possible CPU architectures.
MAI never had any intention of mass-producing these POP based evaluation boards until Eyetech came along.
Why?
No demand.
So your so-called advancements of the POP boards are a fortunate by-product of MAI's focus on embedded systems, nothing more.
Thanks to Eyetech and OS 4 POP boards will finally be mass-produced for desktop use. |
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