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| Posted by dammy on 08-Sep-2002 08:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 66 (Daniel Miller):
Posted by Daniel Miller (65.129.44.151) on 08-Sep-2002 07:11:33
> In Reply to Comment 65:
> dammy typed:
>> The issue with PPC, I think technically and economically, it's
>> a bad choice. Time will tell if I am right or not. I don't give
>> either HYPErion or MOS much hope of surviving more then a few
>> years. I grow tired of the windup advo pups yipping
> To address the last first, people get tired of your negative tone,
> with "HYPErion" and "Amino" and so on. I am not setting out to
> criticize you as I think we agree on a lot of things, but I think
> we should attempt to elevate the tone in our public remarks.
I'll tell you what, I'll reach half way on Amino (current owners of Amiga Inc). The only thing positive I can say is they are with Bernie and I consider the laptops a better deal then the Amiga1.5. HYPErion, I do feel sorry for having to deal with Amino on getting a OS out the door. I am, however very tired of the legal threats and the over HYPING of their products and coding capabilities. If anything, when I see Ben's postings, I know I'm in for a real treat because no one else would even dream of representing a company in the manner he does.
RS, IMNSHO, is an ass. Having said that, he's IMHO, a better business man who understands the need to STF on public boards. By that reason alone, I think MOS is going to outlast HYPEOS4. RS can control himself, Ben evidently can't.
> This doesn't mean we should not criticize executive update rubbish like
> the famous "On Schedule and Rockin'" headline from last year when
> development on A1 had been frozen, and H&P was dumping OS 4.0. It
> only means that nyaah nyaah stuff simply meant to annoy people
> should be avoided.
Once a company has alteast a minute amount of my respect, I usually start referring to their proper name. HYPErion is close, but no cigar. Perhaps if they release a decent OS minus the hype and threats, I'll drop the extra upper case characters.
> Now as to your comment about PPC being a bad choice, I disagree w.
> that. It is a more modern basis than the X86 architecture, no
> matter how much X86 is juiced up.
Depends, I see EV6 bus as pretty respectable, and the hypertransport can be (and is) exploided throughout the different bus systems.
> Outside of that it represents a
> real diversity. It is something different. If you really think that
> Intel or AMD X86 descendant are so hot, then you should enjoy that
> Inc. is now announcing their "exciting, amazing" plans for the
> X86-based emulator Bernie Meyer is working on.
See above. I've been cheering on Bernie and AROS crew on their seperate projects.
> Why they weren't
> doing this a year ago instead of asking for expressions of interest
> now in September, 2002 I don't know. Because they have no direction
> and are lost in their spider's web of deceptive marketing I guess.
That and those who have coughed up tens of million$ of Venture Capital, don't give a rat's ass about either of the two. Now it appears that Amino (Owners of Amiga Inc) have to generate revenues through sales, it's time to fleecy the sheep once again instead of suckering in more VC.
> I was going to explain (contrary to your opinion) why I think
> Thendic-France has the right idea with the PPC machine and the
> software and accessory hardware they are running with, but this
> article is sort of long already, so I will stick that in my pocket
> for another day.
Other then to have control of the customer's wallet, there is no logical reason for PPC choice. x86 of today (and shortly x86-64 of 4Q02) isn't the same POS 386/486 of yesteryear. The MHz/GHz rumour that Apple has long spewed forth to the MacHeads are just that, and the roughest compairson I've seen that seem plausiable was a 10% effeciency over x86 (BFD). What EyeTech and bPlan should have done was buy mini-ITX mobos and cases, and sold the new "amiga" complete for $400-$500, minus monitor. If that wasn't enough, spray on neon color Boing Balls all over the case.
This way, the end user has nothing to lose, except the $100 or so for the Amiga/Morph OS. Just reformat the HD, and you have whatever flavor x86 installed and running. There you have a finite number of Mobos/gfx chips (since the gfx are embedded on the mobo with sound and ethernet) to support, just what the PPC have been bitching about why PPC was the only real choice.
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