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[News] OpenTV's interactive television to run on IBM's PowerPC-based set-top-box chipsANN.lu
Posted on 22-Aug-2001 11:14 GMT by Christophe Decanini5 comments
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Here is the IBM announcement.
OpenTV's interactive television to run on IBM's PowerPC-based set-top-box chips : Comment 1 of 5ANN.lu
Posted by Christophe Decanini on 21-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT
Ok it is not so much Amiga related but:
- IBM will manufacture a lot of (unexpensive) PPC chips.
- AmigaDE could run on these set top boxes.
OpenTV's interactive television to run on IBM's PowerPC-based set-top-box chips : Comment 2 of 5ANN.lu
Posted by Kjetil on 21-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT
This is noting new, hell if Amiga inc wonted to they can run native Amiga OS 4.2 on this boxes, 68xxx needs to be emulated any way, Agnus, Paula, Denis is old chips only required by games.
What the Amiga is driven by is only the Amiga Inc and the interest of the 3rd party developers. If you are selling/developing hardware you don’t wont to compete against otter hardware manufactories, and this is extremely important if you ting about IBM, small companies have noting to compete against large giants.
If this ever going to happen most 3rd party Amiga companies most resign from her place in the Amiga market. And there will be no point in developing the AmigaOne, if so the AmigaOne will only be transformation development stage in the process, making a fully native IBM Amiga. This may boost the sale of AmigaOS on larger scale if the AmigaOS can provide a professional averment for advanced networking and server appellation, terminal systems and biz applications. This is the market of Linux to day.
I think I heard some wear IBM owns large parts of the Linux systems and are interested in earning money from this deal. This will be by providing cheaper servers by installing a free OS or by selling Linux as biz OS like AS/400.
And we can finally call the Amiga, IBM compatible :)
OpenTV's interactive television to run on IBM's PowerPC-based set-top-box chips : Comment 3 of 5ANN.lu
Posted by Bouncing Ayatollah on 21-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT
Don't forget too that VP coding got glowing reviews in the
IBM "Developer Works" conferences, so IBM certainly
know about Amiga and seem interested in Amiga's approach.
OpenTV's interactive television to run on IBM's PowerPC-based set-top-box chips : Comment 4 of 5ANN.lu
Posted by gary_c on 22-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Bouncing Ayatollah):
Sorry to rain on your parade, but the author of those DeveloperWorks articles was Daniel Robbins, CEO of Gentoo Technologies, not somebody from IBM, and those glowing opinions are his, not theirs. IBM can't necessarily be assumed to be aware of the contents of DeveloperWorks articles and their appearance certainly shouldn't be taken as an IBM endorsement. I imagine there are individuals at IBM who are following Amiga's progress, but I haven't seen any mention by IBM as a company.
-- gary_c
OpenTV's interactive television to run on IBM's PowerPC-based set-top-box chips : Comment 5 of 5ANN.lu
Posted by Dave on 23-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (gary_c):
Precisely. I pointed this out on the AMIOPEN list and in anonymous posting after Daniel sent out press releases. The releases werent too misleading just the dumb journo interpretation ( plus dumb readers who didnt pick up the words "Gentoo Technologies" - which is not and never has been a part of IBM ).
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