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Posted on 17-Sep-2002 07:46 GMT by Mike Bouma | 90 comments View flat View list |
In a new Amiga editorial for Suite101, John Chandler focusses on the Amiga solutions already available and what we can soon expect from Amiga Inc. Among this are AmigaDE enabled Zaurus PDAs and smartphones, AA availability in mainstream European shops and AmigaOS 4.0 scheduled for a pre-Christmas launch.
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Posted by strobe on 17-Sep-2002 19:37 GMT | To Amiga corporate zealots: WHERE'S THE BEEF?! It certainly isn't in this marketing drool.
BTW PowerPC is not dead. PowerPC's 64bit implementation is the BEST OUT THERE! Itanium? Dead. Hammer? Delayed. Sparc? Wimp.
Sure, if you want to run DOOM 3 there's nothing better than a P4. However what if you want to address more memory or use multiple processors? Optimizing for PowerPC for multimedia applications is FAR easier to do with the PowerPC ISA, especially with AltiVec. x86 is CRAP!
Unfortunately nobody has been developing PowerPC processors targeted for the consumer market. Reportedly IBM is working on a light version of the POWER4 with AltiVec for use in desktops and small servers (called GP-UL), however you won't see the products on the shelf until Sep/Oct '03. The economy sucks now and nobody is going to rush products out the door with the current glut.
Anyway x86 is living on borrowed time and the best non-x86 processor is PowerPC. If you want to play DOOM 3 go ahead and buy a cheap PC, but don't fool yourself into thinking that this means PowerPC isn't appropriate for the Amiga platform. |
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